My language skills are quite poor. I was never very good at Hebrew, though I studied it sat in class clueless over it for several years. I was never very good at Spanish, though I took it in school for six years. I was always better at reading it than speaking it, and once someone got into a conversational pace I was done for.
The good news is you can travel effectively almost anywhere in the world without speaking anything other than English (go ahead – flame me!).