inferiority

[frankiedarlin]

well, well. i just finished the most hectic chat session i have ever had. bear in mind, i dont chat a lot or with a lot of people. here i found myself chatting with five people at once. thank gawd, it was restricted to english! anyway, one of these people was emma and get this: she speaks mandarin, english, french, spanish and is learning

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[shortykahn]

I don't know which is worse, that Emma speaks all those languages or that the person it's making feel inferior is YOU, who already speaks more languages than I can ever hope to...maybe June is just inferiority month. The one TINY thought I comfort myself with over my Unilingual woes is that one time when I was 11 I said to my mom, "I want to be able to speak ten languages," and she said, "Yeah, well, then you can be boring in ten languages." I guess I'd rather be interesting in "a few" (in quotes because fluency is a privilege not a right) than boring in ten. Though interesting in ten would be nice too...Whatever, I promise that when I'm living in Russia and speaking really bad russian, you have an open invite to come visit me whenever you want and pick up the lang.

[frankiedarlin]

believe me, inferiority frequents me way too often...like all the time? yeah, i know, its not good but i cant seem to not feel inferior.
and just so that i have said it: you are NOT boring, never were and never will be, hon. you couldnt be if you really wanted to (which you dont, right?)
so, yes, i will come and visit you in russia and we'll both attempt to learn it!