I took two years of Latin in high school (mandatory), and two semesters (a repeat of what I already did in high school because I had forgotten enough by then!) in college, then a semester of medieval Latin with a tutor in grad school. That's a big chunk of my life devoted to learning this language and I remember NONE of it for any practical purposes. Not that there's much practical purpose to it. At various other times I've taken tons of French and a bit of Italian and German. And one workshop on Gaelic. I love languages, and it really does seem to help enrich your own native tongue to study other languages, but oddly I really, really stink at actually learning and speaking these languages. I was the slow learner in the classes that the professors tolerated because I was having so much fun with it.

Sarah