Business Insider – Jennifer Still 
I’ve had a passion for learning languages ever since I was a child. The first one I taught myself was French. I was 12 years old and in love with the melodic, beautiful sounds of the language, but it wasn’t offered at my school, so I had to take matters in my own hands. Now, more than two decades later, I can carry conversations in Paris’s native tongue whenever I visit without much of a struggle. (more)