The question this prompts for me is not how, but why: what difference does it make? > Joe tells his friends over Facebook how he loves France and wants to lear

The question this prompts for me is not how, but why: what difference does it make? > Joe tells his friends over Facebook how he loves France and wants to learn the language. Does Joe actually want to learn to speak French, or does Joe merely wish he were the kind of person who would learn to speak French?