Also, gaining fluency is a language is a very perishable skill. I lived in Japan for a couple of years, and was pretty good at 30+ years ago. I wish I had time to remain fluent in it, but even just trying to maintain some of what I used to have takes way too much time. The very basics of a foreign language are like riding a bike, but fluency definitely is not. In my experience with French, Japanese, and C, anyway.
Besides being fluent in English and Spanish and be able to read a little Portuguese, I would like to speak French, Arabic, German and Chinese. That way you could easily go anywhere in the world and have no problems communicating.
Me too, know some of the words and they intersperse English so sometimes can make out the gist.
Would love to see the Phila Eagles learn some to use as hard counts, could you imagine!
Would like to be fluent in Japanese so I can understand my wife and kids
Some kind of Chinese might be good but I’ve met numerous expats and lots of them communicate with other Chinese in English because it’s not so often they know the same dialect.
I’ve heard Spanish is a good language to learn but I have no use for it.
Esperanto, the 1960s hope for the universal language of the future, I’m probably the only person on earth who doesn’t know it yet which is why none on you mentioned it.
I have English, French, and Spanish. English because that is my native tongue. French because it was taught in school and there was a french speaking town across the river and the girls were pretty. Spanish because it has been handy to know here in New Mexico. I don’t have any strong desire to learn any other language at present.
Do you count versions of the same language? Like, English = Canadian, UK, US, Australian