My hubby and I took German in high school, but lack of use has made that almost worthless now. I have taught multiple languages to my kiddos......or at least supervised their learning of them.....but I still can't speak them myself. I have emphasized learning of Latin to all, Spanish to 2, French to one, and one even took German in college. If I had it to do all over, we would have all learned Latin, (no regrets there) then everyone would have taken German. It would have been much easier on me and we maybe could have culminated their studies with a family trip to Germany.