The Internet makes it easier to become a "language polyglot", and Google Translate makes it easier to be a monoglot.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/n...f-languages-finds-online-fellowship.html
Adventures of a Teenage Polyglot
By JOHN LELAND
March 9, 2012


"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." - George Orwell