Most languages spoken by a few thousand people are so complicated they make your head swim; a Siberian yak herder's language is much more complicated than a Manhattan bond trader's.
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When you have those two languages - an analytic one like English and a synthetic, very sensual thing like Russian, you get almost a psychotic sense of humanity that permeates nearly everything. It can help you understand, and it can discourage you, because you see how little can be done.
Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.
Japanese is a very difficult language.
I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.
Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.
As languages go, English is pretty user friendly. If you look at a tiny language spoken somewhere that most of us have never heard of, chances are it's going to be so complicated that you have a hard time imagining how people can walk around speaking it without having a stroke.
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.
People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.
People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.