There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.
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I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.
I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.
It is much easier to learn another language when you are young, enthusiastic and unembarrassed.
I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.
You can have your own language. You can have your own dialect; you can have your own way of saying things, but if you don't actually understand the way the language fits together, it's chaos.
Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.
It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.
People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!