Well, languages are definitely my strong point and I've picked up Japanese pretty well through anime/manga (since I'm one of those obsessive people who will listen to the subs over and over and over again to catch words/phrases I know) - of course, it's still maybe only a little bit more than you're basic fangirl Japanese - so hopefully I'd be able to catch on fairly quickly once I'm in a class. At least, with the speaking part. I have noooo experience whatsoever with the written part, which I have heard is, like, three times as complicated as the spoken. :P

Still, I definitely want to learn the written Japanese, especially - if only to feed my manga obsession even further help out some of my favorite (and neglected) fandoms that are totally without translators.