How do you get to Judaism? Practice, man, practice

I finally got around to following a link in the article to which I linked in my previous post, and read Mark Oppenheimer's "Tablet" article, Learning Judaism as a Native Language Requires More Than Synagogue Once a Year.  Boy, ain't that the truth!  It's taken me literally decades to master the siddur/prayerbook, prayer by prayer, psalm by psalm, biblical or rabbinic quotation by quotation.  But it's a really wonderful feeling to be able to walk into any synagogue (well, any Ashkenazi shul, at least), pick up a siddur, and davven/pray in the original Hebrew (with the occasional foray into English or quick peek at the translation).  Try it, you'll like it!  I highly recommend putting in the time to learn one's way around a prayer book and prayer service.  Granted that I'll probably never be able to keep up with the "speed-davveners," but it's nice to feel like an insider and not a foreigner to my own ritual tradition.