In College I majored in Romance Languages, French, Spanish and Italian.  I love languages and I love traveling and each time I visit a new country I study the language.  When I lived  on the Big Island of Hawaii I taught French and Spanish at Parker School.  When I lived  in Tetuan, Morocco I studied Arabic for two years but never really felt at home with it.  I remember several times when I had dreams in Arabic and I was speaking pefect Arabic but Maryanne, the dreamer could not understand any of it.  I studied Mandarin and Japanese at the New School for Social Research in New Yrok but when I went to China I could only remember a few words.  I spent two years inBrazil and studied Portuguese at the University  I spoke good  Portuguese then but now I don't do so well.  But I have learned that when i speak even a few words of a language   Iam welcomed warmly.