Wish I could learn another language. Some people just seem to have a gift and others (namely me) don't.
I envy my daughter. She learns languages easily in the classroom. I could never do that. If I have no immediate need for a language I can't learn it just because I want to. I spoke VN pretty fluently in 68-70 and since the early 1980s have been very close to the local VN emigre community. I go to mass in Vietnamese. That has not kept me from losing most of the language. I got books and later got computer programs. I paid a lady to give me lessons. No good. The emigres were/are all trying to learn English and I don't have to speak VN. In one month back in Viet Nam last summer I got pretty good again. No one around me spoke English at all. When I got back I was talking to my friends like they were in the old country. Now I'm losing it again.