PeterTheSwede wrote:
Possibly if you live in a country where the other language is spoken and/or you use it a lot (communicating with people who speak it natively). Then perhaps, you could master it.
That, I concede. I am fluent in Marathi (well, it's my mother tongue), Hindi (the official language of India), Tamil (the state language of Tamil Nadu), and of course, English. I can also hold a conversation in Telugu but am by no means fluent. I can distinguish between a lot of European languages just by looking at a couple of sentences (think of deo spray cans :rolleyes: ), but I don't understand them.
Cheers, Vikram.
The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.