"- attempted to teach myself German
- wanted to learn Latin and started in on that one"

(Sorry dunno how to use quotes)

I'm serious when I tell you that I've tried to teach myself:

German (2yrs)
Spanish (3yrs+)
Japanese (manic whim)
Russian (manic whim)
American Sign Language (yep.. you guessed it manic whim)
add a quarter semester of french and italian in, and that's what i've tried to teach myself.

I gravitate heavily toward languages/learning for some reason.