I totally understand coming from a monolingual English country, that you just think to yourself that I don't have the language gene. Other people have it, I don't have it. Or I did not grow up speaking a language, so it's too late, I'm past whatever the cutoff age is for learning a language.

And a lot of people say these things to themselves, and that truly is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The more you embrace these reasons that you're going to fail, the more you essentially make them true. And I always like to think what Henry Ford said once, "Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right." And I think that's very true with language learning.