Thank you. On sleepless nights I've read about Euskara, it seems interesting and unique, personally remembers me of some African languages
I'm fluent in Swahili which is spoken in East Africa. Euskara is completely a language on its own and related to nothing on Planet Earth.
All I know is English, Spanish, some Hebrew (Thank you Dodi), some Arabic (also thank you Dodi,) very basic French, and some Italian and Portuguese. It's not much to brag about, but I'm trying.
I can speak Spanish good enough to fool natives. I also fool a lot of people with my appearance and facial features. People also tend to confuse me with other ethnicities and nationalities.
When I tell people I'm Israeli of Russian-Jewish ancestry I get looks from people as if they were saying WHAT?????? I have Lebanese, Egyptians, Moroccans, and Tunisians coming up to me and speaking to me in Arabic all the time. It must be because of my swarthy colouring and facial features. (Then I answer them in their dialects of Arabic!) However, even Greeks approach me speaking Greek. (I then answer them in perfect Greek!)
I'm an Israeli of Russian-Jewish ancestry too. Sometimes people tell me I look like a Russian, sometimes like a Jew, and when I have a beard they say I look like a Chechen terrorist. Here's me dancing Lezginka, celebrating my new-found Chechen identity:
I disagree, Ryan. That * is * something to modestly brag about seeing how so many, if not most, Americans speak only English and many of them do so badly on top of it all. If you're lucky they may speak one other language, typically Spanish.
(Blush) guilty as charged.....although I did learn just enough Spanish to be dangerous a few years ago. But sadly, I have forgotten most of it. Reading Jeff's and Ryan's posts have rekindled my interest in learning another language.
Writing was never as hard for me as speaking it. Now, at least I can speak it and everyone understands me properly.
