I have loved languages from my infancy and when abroad can hardly help picking up words and phrases almost without effort. But I have to bear in mind that not everyone is thrilled by an opportunity to learn a language, or to speak to a fellow human being in their own tongue. Even in the same language (eg English in UK) a person has only to open their mouth to reveal their origins, 'status', educational level, place of birth, age and even political attitude from their choice of words and their accent. So a government bent on imposing a second language on all its people, such as in Canada, is not necessarily going to achieve its original aims.