If you could wake up tomorrow fluent in any language, which would you choose?

A natural way to answer

Probably Spanish. It's spoken in so many countries that it would open a lot of doors for travel and for meeting people. And the grammar always intimidated me, so skipping straight to fluency would be wonderful.

Key phrases to use

• save someone years of slog — to spare someone a long period of tedious, hard effort“A good teacher can save you years of slog.”
• within reach — achievable or attainable; close enough to be possible“Fluency suddenly felt within reach.”
• squint at — to look at something with partly closed eyes because it's hard to see or read“I'm always squinting at subtitles I can barely follow.”