I always admired my great-grandfather Waldman (the first Joe Waldman). From what I'm told he could speak five or six languages fluently (the result, no doubt, of growing up in Vienna). English, German, Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, Russian, and maybe some other local Slavic tongue.

What was your high-school language? I took Latin and while it's come in useful when picking apart the English language, I really wish I'd taken Spanish. It probably should be a requirement now, same as math and science. Every kid should take a few years of it.