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Play any instrument or speak any language, which do you choose?
Question submitted by cruftbox.vox.com.

When I was younger, (I think it was around the time I started taking French in High School) I came up with the idea of a character (usually me, I'm the hero of my own stories - especially the ones that never see the light of day) who could understand and speak any language that a person he was talking to could speak. I had alway's pictured it as a form of selective telepathy. The specifics of how it would work were never really set in stone, like whether or not distance was a factor, (would it work over the telephone, or chatting on the internet?) how long I'd retain the ability to speak a specific language,  or whether I was actualy speaking the language, (sometimes I was, sometimes the person would only think that I was, like some sort of universal translator) and whether or not I could choose the language (in the case of a polyglot) or if it was automatically just the speaker's native language (the language that they thought in)

Maybe someday I'll work this stuff out and put into a story - it always seems like a neat basis for a character to me.

So the answer to the QotD for me is: "speak any language"