When a man speaks in tongues, do you believe that he speaks one of the thousands of languages spoken on our planet, or could he be speaking with the tongues of angels?

This text is from a transcript of a talk by David Gooding, entitled ‘Finding Your Place in the Body of Christ’ (1989).

My only comment on that would be, if a man speaks in the tongues of angels, it's got to be a proper language. Sometimes people say, 'You can't ask for all these languages that are spoken in tongues to be translated, because some of them could be the language of angels.' If I don't know Russian I can't understand it either, but it's a real language. It isn't just so much noise. If a person were to speak in the tongues of angels, wouldn't that be a real language too, and not just so much noise?

To think that Michael the archangel says 'Bah, bah' and makes a lot of noise that isn't a language would be very irreverent, wouldn't it? Angels speak languages no less sophisticated than ours. Be assured that they do; they have had a long time to do it. If it's a general language and God the Holy Spirit gives the translation, he could translate angel language just as much as human language. This is no ground for people to say that you can't demand a translation of it. It's very important that you do.