LogFAQs > #879100394

There are some ground rules that I couldn't fit in the topic title.

Basically, let's say through some magic or whatever, you have the choice of becoming capable of communicating in or understanding (through spoken words and text) every language widely used in the world, but only be able to do the other in only one. So you can have the ability, for example, to speak every language but only understand English, or understand every language but only speak/write in English.

In this case, the one language permitted would be the language you currently are fluent in. If you're multilingual, you'd have to choose one and give up the others.

This effect is explicitly magical, and so are the drawbacks. Even though logically the more you would deal with any language eventually you'd end up learning some of it, with this effect you never be able to speak/understand any other language than your "choice" one. Even if you intentionally tried to study another language you'd be incapable of managing to learn a single word in it.

The languages you'd be able to gain fluency in would be limited to languages that are in use on Earth in current cultures. Dead languages wouldn't count, nor alien languages (you never know what might be out there), or fictional languages. No being clever and including programming languages or "the language of love" or some bullshit like that either.
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Okay, I rolled a 14. What's that mean? Hsu
That you're a cheater. This is a 12-sided die. Chan