I want to do landscape paintings so Poser wouldn't help me with that.

So far as languages, I want to learn something that I can communicate with people on a regular basis with. I work in healthcare and there are certain languages that I encounter on a pretty regular basis (French, Cree Indian, Low German and Punjabi).  My best friend is from Pakistan and I spend a great deal of time with her family, and when together they usually speak Punjabi.  Being around them so often I can understand some of what they say, but cannot communicate with them in their language.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi