Well why don't you check out the place descriptions I did on the front page to see what area you'd like as your "homeland" and i can tel you from that :] I can't give away what's going to be in the campaign :P you wouldn't haven taken it for that :3 hehehehehehehe

Rangers often take the language of their enemies so whatever you pick would probably work for that. Or you can go with any of the other base races: gnome, dwarf, halfling. ect.

You get one feat at first level and one at third. SO you have two feat slots right now. (fighters start with an extra one)
and those two are really good choices :D

the +1 racial to those skills are completely seperate from the ranks :D

Oh right and since you're level 3 you can put a max of 6 points into class skills, and 3 max into non class skills.
1 point into the speak language skill lets you learn another language instead of a rank since there is no actual rolls for it. It just gives you another language.