Konnichiwa. It's really too bad that I'm so lousy with languages, because I do like to study them. I can generally learn the grammers pretty well, but despite having a decent vocabulary in English, I don't seem to be skilled at picking up basic vocabulary in other languages.

Guten Tag. It may be due to a quirk in my personality. I don't like to appear unconfident, particularly if I have been studying hard and feel as if I ought to be further along.

Bonan tagon. So I end up being reluctant to do exactly the sort of drilling that I need — actually talking with someone else in the language I'm supposed to be learning.

Bonjour. That's what leads me to be able to recognize many more languages than the few that I can stumblingly ask for the time of day.

But I'm fluent in American war movie German. And my sister took high school French. And I've seen one movie in Esperanto. And I've read through lesson 3 Japanese.