But I can speak ___, too!

>_<; First of all, not that anybody reads this - except for the friend I gave this link to, I apologized for second posting in a day. I try to avoid doing that.
But, competition really gets to me linguistically. When I heard that somebody my age speaks five langauges, my first instinct is to question what languages. Then, if they don't match up (i.e. it's not like Dutch, Norweign, and Swedish), to question how well they actually know those languages. Fluency is a term thrown around, especially when you're trying to make yourself look cooler.
If I really wanted to sound all great, I would say oh, I speak French, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Thai - or something like that, even though my Korean isn't even above reading hangeul, and my Thai is limited to hello (but nobody would know that since the number of people I've meet who can speak Thai is about 0).
But I don't even like to say I can speak French or Japanese or Chinese or Korean.
My French...is laughable. I had a desire once upon a time but a teacher destroyed that.
Japanese - my comprehension is probably less than a grade school student.
Chinese - I don't get far at all. My listening skills are about negative? My reading skills are a little higher because of Japanese, but still pretty low, I see characters and say, "Oh that means ALL" but I have no idea how to say them.
Korean - is the most laughable of any that I would mention. I can tell you exist, hello, goodbye, hi, nice to meet you, I'm a women, you're a man, very simple things. I'm trying not to learn it - trying hard not to give in. But then I hear that someone speaks five langauges and I say I'M GOING TO LEARN KOREAN TOO.
And then there's also that, "Well.... let's just go learn German". Which isn't easy, but since it is related to English, it's not necessarily as "hard" as my Asian langauges. It's not going to be as easy as learning Norweign for a Danish personthough.
I'm really wondering if these young people who speak so many langauges actually can? What do they qualify as being able to speak these languages?
My self-confidence doesn't allow me to say I'm good at any language I'm learning - perhaps theirs says otherwise?
I usually try and console my "slow pace" (which is better than the people who are nowhere), by saying, I'm young, I've got time. In fact, I just stumbled upon a book by Kato Lamb I think the name was. Famous polyglot - who learned at an older age, so I think I'll be fine.
I'm commited to my one language at a time thing for now, because I've got time.