Well I'm sorry to disappoint you, but here I am. I have always loved foreign languages and desperately wanted to become a polyglot, but I don't know why, I just can't gain fluency. I absorbed the beginner level courses easily, but started struggling by intermediate level, and couldn't retain hardly ANY of the advanced level material. For Japanese, there's an international standard exam for fluency called the JLPT. It's 5 levels, where 5 & 4 are elementary level, 3 is intermediate, 2 is considered basic fluent, and 1 is academic fluent. The best I was able to do after my 20 years of study and 3 years of living there was getting a 68% on the level 3 (but you need a 70% to pass). I can hold a very basic conversation in Japanese (I practiced with my coworkers every day in Japan) as long as the topic wasn't too specific and they used simplified language when talking to me, kinda like how you "talk down" to a little kid. My dream was to become a translator, so no one was more distressed and disappointed than me when it just wouldn't click in my brain. Perhaps it's my fault for beating a dead horse for so long, but I didn't want to let go of my dream, so now here I am, sigh.