[evanny]

knowing simple sentences and expressions for a primitive conversation isn't actually "knowing" the language IMHO.
native is latvian. english was part of school and so was russian. but i didn't attend many of the english lessons so most of what i had learned was by watching movies and internet surfing. in the end got 94% at the exams.
and japanese i've been studying for 4 months now since my major is japanese at the university.