Well, perhaps not a constructive post this but...

Read in a post regarding the ш щ controversy and sombody posted that it must be terrible to have English as your native langauge. Thinging about it i think its great. It means youve learnt one of the hardest languages in the world already when young (when the langauge center of your brain is still active) and it means when older there are only easier languages to learn (well, apart from latin which i understand to be an evil language, but hey, is not like people use latin much). Always makes me laugh the scene in Money Pythons Life of Brian where John Cleese plays the Roman centurion and is correcting Brian's Latin where he has been writing Romans go home.

Back towards my topic though and there are obviously advantages to learning say spanish as native tongue because then its easy to learn italian, or if you already have german then easy to learn dutch, russian then ukranian etc.... well, at least in my understanding.