Polyglot

Most people I know go through life speaking one language. English, obviously. Nothing nationalist about it. I'm writing this in English, so it would stand to reason that most of the people I know also speak English. No need to make a fuss about it.

As for me, maybe it's because I'm a writer and language is my thing, but I always wanted to speak more than one language. Someone who speaks two languages is bilingual. Three languages, I guess, would be triligual, but you get up past that, and you have maybe polylingual, if you want to describe them, but the term for a person who speaks multiple languages with fluency is polyglot. It sounds weird, but it would be awesome to speak so many languages. To be able to go about anywhere in the world and be able to communicate with the locals.

I suspect, however, that I've gone about it totally the wrong since to date I can still only really speak English. I've worked on Spanish, mind you. Been studying Spanish for years and years, but if you play a movie in Spanish, I can still only understand a small piece of it. But do I stop there? No sir. I try to learn French, Italian, German, Russian, Japanese, and how do I do?

Well, not very well, to be honest. I get part way through one and get distracted. I work on Spanish and try for another one on the side as well, and yet, I get stuck. My main problem? Well, I think it's because I'm learning in a vacuum with no one to speak with and no reason to actually learn the language. I'm not taking any trips, nor do I have an actual reason to learn any of them.

I think this whole post is completely derailed. I was going down a path that I thought was good, but I've devolved into complaining. Sucks really. Oh well, if I got you to read this far, then I did something right. Ha.

Now if you'll forgive me, I see something shiny that must be chased.