When I travel, I like to learn the local language as much as I can before I go. My priority language right now is Japanese since I live in Japan. I lived in Thailand for a couple of years and can speak some Thai. (A little bit more than a tourist, but still A1.) And would like to maintain what little Thai I have learned and improve my speaking. I also know some Spanish, but that had deteriorated over the years. I would like to maintain and then improve my abilities - especially daily conversations. I have spoken more Spanish in Japan then I ever had in the US. I find this fact fascinating. German is a language I have been trying to learn for years, but nothing is sticking. It is my white whale. It always gets set aside when I decide to learn another language. I learned Esperanto for fun and I was surprised I could hold a half an hour conversation after a week of studying. But that was more of a learning tool for German. I real life, I am an English teacher.