Originally Posted by toretorden

Norwegian and english fluently. I can understand other nordic languages, but I really shouldn't try to speak them unless for laughs. I know just enough german to make an ass of myself.

Ich bin ein dümkopf und ich liebe wienerschnitzel. Mein Auto ist kaput, wo ist die toilette?

Appearantly, being multi-linguistic excercices the brain and helps prevent alzheimers and so on at an old age. As such, maybe the peoples who have to learn second or even third languages have a significant collective health benefit over those who don't.