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I live in Belgium; my mother tongue is Dutch (with a 'Flemish' accent - if that even exists).
I like to think of English as my second-best language, which it probably is. I took English courses from age 14 to 18 (I'm 21 now), but I've also seen a lot of english movies, read english books et cetera.
I'm rather fluent in understanding French, but my French-speaking abilities have severely deteriorated during the last couple of years. We had obligatory French courses in school from age 11 to 18, but I don't remember much of them.
My understanding of German is average, and I'm able to speak it to a certain extent; i.e. I can express myself, but probably not in a correct way. Once again, I learned most of this language in school, from age 15 to 18.
Finally, I have some minor notions of Swedish, Spanish and Italian; i.e. with some difficulty I should be able to understand a simple written text.
I also took an evening course in Mandarin Chinese for 1 year, but I hardly remember a thing.
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