Keith - No, but my mother was, so I grew up learning German once I was about 5 or so. Never having had formal training, my grammar and my technical vocabulary are quite weak, but I'm pretty comfortable speaking it. Without too much opportunity to speak it, though, I get pretty rusty; so I'm tickled that my son has really taken to it in school, so I can work on it with him.
Paul
PS. I still have a lot of family over there in Bayern, as well as in Zuerich and Bern, Switzerland. Can't afford to get over there much, though. :(