Two doors to our right is a middle-aged woman we socialize with a bit. She's very nice. She has two adult children that don't live with her. She has a dog she walks every day. She's of Norwegian ancestry.

Our next door neighbor to our right is a young family from China. There is an adorable 4 year old girl who LOVES to talk. Super gabby, very friendly, and cute! She plays most of the day with another little girl down the street. She likes that girl, but sometimes complains about her to me. Yesterday she said the girl hits her a lot. In response, I told her to to tell her mom so she can talk to the friend's mom about it. Sometimes I speak a little Chinese with her, but she is fluent in English to the degree of most other 4 year olds in the US. She's smart! She likes my husband, too. Her mother speaks good English, but her father and grandfather (who also lives with her) don't. Sometimes I comment, in Chinese, about the weather to the grandfather and he laughs.

As for the neighbors to my left side, they are all graduate students at the university and of Chinese ancestry. One of them is a young woman whose parents bought the house and her car for her. She's sort of a bit spoiled-like. One of them crushed my husband's car door with their car, but won't admit to it. I confess that I had a bit of a tough talk with her the other day finishing with a "Hit and runs are not nice!" Won't change much, I think. Other neighbors are less familiar to me. There happen to be a lot of people from China, originally. One very old man walks on the road a lot. He also does meditation. Yesterday, I saw him stand in the same place for what seemed 30 mins, with his eyes closed. Maybe he reached Nirvana?

What foreign language(s) did you study, even to a small degree?