For some reason I'm envisioning you saying "It bids fair to drive me mad!" in casual conversation, then people look at you funny.

Every once in a while, when I look to thin out the old comic book collection, I try to give the books away to people who are still learning English.  Because, again, who says at least some of learning a new language can't be fun?

My Great-grandfather was from Sibbo/Sippo and came over to America in 1914. I'm thinking of stopping over for a couple of days next August to visit the town and find out what I can about my ancestors. 

And I absolutely love, love, love watching American TV shows and movies dubbed in Spanish (dubbed, not subtitled).  I seek out those DVDs, and I'm disappointed when I can't find that option (though I'm grateful that DVDs have made that option much more plentiful, 'cause back in the VHS days, the pickings were slim indeed).

And I do find that it can be a significantly different experience.  True story: I had seen STAR TREK VI several times in the theaters.  Every time, when Kirk tells Spock that everybody's human and Spock replies that he finds that insulting, the audience laughed.  But I never did, and couldn't understand why people were laughing.

A few years later, after seeing the movie countless more times on home video, I saw it one night on one of the Spanish channels.  And even though it was the umpteenth viewing and I knew the line was coming, that night, dubbed in Spanish, for the very first time, it made me laugh out loud.

I can't explain it, but somehow, even when re-watching something I'm very familiar with in English, the Spanish-dubbed version comes at me from a slightly different angle and makes it a different experience.