Purpletigron

Or, I could have done with learning this basic systematic phoneme chart for vowels when I was a teenager:

http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/course/chapter1/vowels.html

(and the International Phonetic Alphabet).

Apparently, we lose our 'baby aptitude' for learning languages between the ages of c. 8 and c. 15. I wish someone had told me that, and helped me to become bilingual, before I dropped out of range.