What Foreign Indo-European Languages Have You Learned?

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I've been studying German since my sophomore year of High School. I did a 6 week summer abroad program after my freshman year of college, and spent my entire senior year abroad in Tübingen, Germany. I also started studying Russian my junior year, which I continued to do in Germany (which was weird, taking a Russian class via a German-language speaking instructor)...later on I did an intensive month study in Moscow in between the semesters in Germany, which was a blast. I speak German with near native fluency, and I used to speak Russian at a high intermediate level, but I'm so rusty now I'm more like high beginner.

After college, in my first big job, I made enough to afford night classes in Spanish and took 5 courses in total...then capped it off with two weeks intensive study/homestay in La Antigua, Guatemala. I speak/read/comprehend Spanish at an intermediate level. As my Spanish got better my Russian got worse. It felt like both languages were fighting over the same turf in my brain.

I've been wanting to pick up French, but life and work keep getting in the way.
If money were no object, I'd spend the rest of my life studying foreign languages and having interesting conversations with people.
I've thought about teaching English abroad in China or Taiwan (I find Asian languages rather intimidating, though), but I do have to worry about retirement...I'm 39 so not so young anymore for that kind of adventure.

Foreign languages have been my main Aspie "obsession" above all else. Just wish I had a more practical obsession like math or computer science Foreign language skills are great but they're oversold in the job market. You need foreign language + a marketable skill to make the FL ability really mean anything in the job market, I've found...to my chagrin.

Ich hatte Deutsch und Latin gelernt, but I forgot most of these languages.

I am fluent in Dutch (native tongue), Esperanto, English and German (with decreasing fluency). I am able to read Afrikaans, French and Ido in a lesser extent. Even though Afrikaans is very similar to Dutch it is harder for me to write and to listen to (spoken) Afrikaans, than writing and listening to English.

Spanish fluently; Portuguese I can get along in; French I can communicate somewhat in writing, but cannot understand it spoken.

You can only pick one choice in the poll.

Hellenic... classical and koine Greek.
Romance... Latin, some Spanish and Italian.
French.
Irish.
Russian.
German.

Also, Anglosaxon, Old High German, Gothic at university (though I've forgotten much of the last.) Can understand Dutch and Afrikaans, and speak well enough in them to be understood. I tried learning Welsh, but never got into it. And am currently learning Polish.

I would class that grouping as five languages, and smatterings of others.

I've posted here before, but my answer has changed.

I've learned bits of quite a lot of languages, can't be bothered to list them all, and I've been learning Spanish for a year and have recently started learning Romanian. Spanish is the only one I've focused on long enough to be quite good at it, and now I will do the same with Romanian while continuing to improve my Spanish. I will learn lots more in future

Lernst du German? Ich bin!!

Guitar Girl, you German is so funny

I like languages and I'm interested in:
Germanic: English, German
Slavic: Polish, Russian.

I can't speak each of them, but I try.

Ya, but Germans call it Deutsch (see Jmnixon's post). And ich bin =/= I do.
I mean not only this post, but all.

Fluent in German and French. I read better than I speak, as i don't have many chances to practice speaking. Near-fluent in Gaelic (Gàidhlig).

Learning currently, basic and conversation: Japanese, Russian and Arabic. These are slow going for me because I'm trying to work on all 3 at once. But I'm doing OK, I'm just taking my time with them. I'm not going to rush like I did with French and Gàidhlig. I'm also learning some Spanish for work--I already know a little.

Started with Swedish recently but stopped. I decided I'd rather put my time into Russian. I had also started Mandarin last year, but stopped to focus on my Gàidhlig. Have also studied/once knew a little: ancient Greek, modern Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Vietnamese, Esperanto.

I would like to restart learning Mandarin in the near future, and also once I get some Arabic down, learn some Farsi. Also Korean, Turkish and Urdu interest me, and I'd like to re-learn some Vietnamese, but sadly, I doubt I'll ever get around to these.

Native in Swedish, know English pretty well. Did a little bit of Spanish, now studying Russian. Considering Latin as well.