Speak two languages: bilingual. Speak three languages: trilingual. Speak one language: American. I am an American. ;-) They killed the Russian class in my High School when I was in 4th grade. My mother arranged for me to study Russian with the teacher's daughter that summer. I can only say that High School Russian is a hard damn thing for a 4th grader to learn during the summer. Growing up, Spanish was predominant but not only is it a dialect disavowed by both the Mexican and Castillian school, it's a dialect used by the locals to isolate the white folx. Spanish was actually a lot easier to understand in Los Angeles because it wasn't intended as exclusionary. I studied German in High School but any language you don't use regularly is a language you lose. I've never been proficient in anything but English. I can understand some spoken German and Spanish but not well enough to bother attempting to converse in it.