Years ago, when I went back to the States to finish up my college degree, I took a course in Classical Greek, on the basis that I thought I wanted to learn it. Not long after the drop/add period ended, I realized that I didn't want to *learn* it; I wanted to *know* it -- preferably without having to spend time memorizing declensions. (To this day I'm not entirely sure what an aorist is or why I would want one.) Nowadays I regret not having worked harder at it. My standard excuse is that Chinese ruined me for proper languages with normal grammar, but the truth is that I was just lazy.