Examples of using "Falá" in a sentence and their english translations:
I understand it a little, but I can't speak it.
- My dog can understand Esperanto but cannot speak it.
- My dog can understand Esperanto but can't speak it.
Mary can't even read French, much less speak it.
Mary can't even read French, much less speak it.
Frustrated with the European languages, which he considered "too boring", Christopher Columbus invented "Columbian", a language so complicated that only he could speak it.
There is a big difference between learning a language in order to understand or to say something if needed, and wanting to acquire a second language in order to command it freely, almost like you command your first language, your mother tongue.