I remember back in my stoner days, I'd get home about 4 AM from playing a show in some nightclub, and flip on the TV to see what was on. In those days, cable TV was still a burgeoning technology, and there were very few channels to choose from. One of the mainstays for that time slot was the televangelist Robert Tilton. Kinda looks like Count Dracula.
He'd say, "Put your hand on the TV screen and pray with me. I feel the Holy Spirit telling me that someone out there is suffering from ______________. In the name of JESUS, you are released...." Then his eyes would roll back, and he'd say something like, "Ahhhhhshalabahacamasachamakamabradajalakamahama...." Then he'd look confused for a split second, and then suddenly "snap-to", with a big wide grin, and say, "That was the Lord, speaking through me in tongues, and He wants you to know__________________."
We used to have laughing fits over bong-hits.
Since then, I became a born again Christian many years later, and was exposed to very good, sincere people who obviously love Jesus, and who believe the Bible says for them to speak in tongues. They've tried to show me the places where the Bible says to do what they do, and to my way of reasoning, one has to stretch so dang far to get there, it makes no sense whatsoever. They'll go as far as to say that in order to receive this "gift", you have to practice it alone in your prayer time.
Practice? By babbling and calling it "heavenly language"? To receive a gift from the Holy Spirit? I don't get it. I will not pass judgment on others who do claim to get it, but I do not get it.
Could God make me speak in tongues? As surely as He is my Lord. But He's never done so yet, and I'm not going to pretend.