German, Spanish, and Patagonia

Blog Challenge of the Day: How many languages do you speak? If you could instantly learn any language and be able to speak it fluently, what language would you pick? How would you use it and where would you go?

I speak one and a half languages. I’m not good enough in German to count it fully. I wouldn’t mind relearning enough German to really be fluent, but Spanish is far more practical in the United States, given the percentage of the population that speaks it. I would use it to make my way to Patagonia at the southern tip of Argentina, a place I’ve always longed to visit.

If I went with German, I’d head back to München, Deutschland; Salzburg, Österreich; and Zermatt in die Schweitz. All of them are such beautiful places…