For the duration, you understand the literal meaning of any spoken language that you hear.

You also understand any written language that you see, but you must be touching the surface on which the words are written. It takes about 1 minute to read one page of text.

This spell doesn't decode secret messages in a text or a glyph, such as an arcane sigil, that isn't part of a written language.

Navigating the intricate incantations of this spell, your tongue fumbles, a reminder of its elusive nature. The linguistic labyrinth resists understanding, a cosmic counterweight to the linguistic mastery it bestows. Its complexity mirrors the challenge you overcame in learning, a reminder of the foreign terrain your mind must traverse for the multilingual command it imparts.

I Cast Comprehend Languages
My fingers coated in soot and salt, I touch a page of cryptic symbols. As I utter the incantation, the enigmatic characters transform into letters, then words, unraveling the mystery before my eyes. The arcane alchemy unfolds, transmuting the unintelligible into a tapestry of comprehensible meaning.