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Wouldn't it be great if I could speak another language!  I would be so proud of myself.  If I did so it would be as a grand undertaking, any practical benefit of being able to communicate with other people would be tertiary.

Of course I tried to learn a language before, well (tried?).  I was a child and I did not have anything invested in it.  Six weeks ago I was in France.  I got this wonderfully small pleasure in speaking a small phrase of French.  I had all of this information I never knew was useful, or realized to what extent it may be useable.