Has anyone tried learning another launguage

I learned Italian from my grandparents as a kid, and spoke with them and my father. My mother understood enough to know what you were saying, but couldn't speak it. Now I'm older and just about everyone who spoke Italian has passed. I seldom have occasion to speak it other than with a couple cousins, when we are alone, it comes out sometimes. I'm losing the ability to carry on a conversation. Weird thing is because I seldom speak it, I now find myself translating in my head, and that does not make for a fluid conversation. Think I need a few months in Italy :)... I also attend Latin mass so I can recite the prayers in Latin, not speak it. It is also a beautiful language.