Daily writing prompt

What’s something you would attempt if you were guaranteed not to fail.

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So, this one is more like the realistic version of the “one single wish” I would have:

My Wish – to know every single language in existence: read, write, speak, listen, understand, and translate. This means eeeeevery language, including: computers, animals and plants, aliens (if they’re out there), MATHS, all the languages humans have every had… if it communicates, even if we don’t have evidence of it, I want to know it.

Down Side: I’d probably become the world’s most wanted individual, and not necessarily in a good way. I mean, shit… imagine if I could legitimately translate the Emerald Tablets or whatever oldest version of the Bible is being hidden in the Vatican. I could literally translate at world conferences, or understand super remote tribes of humans. And OMG being able to talk to cats and elephants?! Yaaasss.

So, that being said, my attempt (for prompt purposes) would be to learn at least 10 of the major languages out there that we humans speak. I’d love to be a language interpreter. I’m fascinated with foreign languages and, unfortunately for us here in the U. S. of A. – our educational system with learning foreign languages is shit. I’m pretty envious of other countries that learn 1 or 2 languages other than their native one, as a matter of course.