What languages do you speak/want to speak and why? Because I'm a horrible gross language nerd.
I've got a decent grasp of Icelandic at the moment and have recently commenced attempting to learn Finnish. A few years back, I hit absolute rock bottom (again) and decided I was going to stop attempting to do anything useful with my life and learn Old Norse instead. So I did. Whoopee! And...that's kind of what I've been doing since. Making the jump to the modern spoken language of Icelandic is hard, especially when it's a bit difficult to find native speakers, but I'm doing alright and plan to study Icelandic as a second language at Háskóli Íslands when I can gather the funds/emotional stability. My accent is not a train wreck, my grammar is only moderately questionable, and my vocabulary is...okay, pretty weak, but whatever. I've got the important stuff in there. Icelandic is not so difficult. A bit tricky without a teacher, but definitely doable. It's got a fair amount in common with English, Germanic language and all. And I can, in fact, pronounce Eyjafjallajökull. There's a lot of overlap with Faroese, at least in its written form, so I might jet over to the Faroes a couple summers if I ever manage to get myself to Iceland. But Finnish is a whole different animal. Why did I ever think it was a good idea to step out of the safety of the Indo-European language tree? :(
Finnish grammar is like Chinese grammar plus a shitton of inflection. Alternatively, it's like German, if German did not give a flying beautiful fuck about word order and was twice as complicated. It is a uniquely gorgeous and earthy language, but learning it feels like sinking slowly into a bog. Every time I find a cognate loaned into the language (kulta, rengas, kuningas, prosentti) I weep with relief. One day I'll get past "En puhu suomea. Puhutteko ruotsia? Hitaasti, ole hyvä.". And maybe one day I'll get used to saying questions like vaguely speculative statements. But Finnish people I've interacted with through the internet seem much less...pissy about foreigners using their language than the Icelanders do. I guess "that was vaguely intelligible" is quite good for people learning Finnish, whereas Icelanders will anecdotally respond to a question with a grammar correction. And then answer in English. And then kick you in the shins.
Anyway, POST ABOUT WORDS WITH YOUR WORDS. Or tell me about your traumatizing second-language courses in school.