I don't know a way to learn a language except try to study it a lot, haha. I speak Spanish fluently. It's taken a lot of work and I'm still eons away from knowing everything I want to know. pretty much languages are lifelong pursuits, in my opinion.

Sounds like a woman you shouldn't engage with again. Anyway, that is a poor expectation to have of you that she had.

I can empathize with not having friends at work. In the past, I've had to deal with good friends leaving work. And right now I have 0 friends at work, ha.