Second Language

I have always been grateful that English is my native tongue.  It is the hardest, largest, most confusing language on the face of the earth, therefore, the most difficult to learn.  I think of writers like Nabokov and Brodsky who not only wrote in English, a foreign tongue, but wrote in that language better than native speakers. That has always amazed me.

If you could suddenly develop the ability to write fluently in any language other than your native tongue, which would you choose?

I would choose Russian, not because of Nabokov and Brodsky, but because Russian readers idolize their writers and poets (as well they should).