[Moma]

(10-20-2015 11:03 AM)CrashBangWallop Wrote:  

(10-19-2015 05:04 PM)Moma Wrote:  

My statement to those such as CrashBangWallop is this, if you learn another language you will have a one up on those others who do not have English as their native tongue since you already have a powerful mastery of the most widely spoken language in the world which is English.

A one up when, on whom and how though?

Seriously, there are a million and one things more important to me on financial, intellectual and spiritual levels than learning another language.

It is neither useful nor fun to me. There is simply no point.

You are perfectly entitled to do what stimulates you. I am only trying to remove the ego away from language learning or the fear of losing one's own culture. I think communicative skills are an extremely important part of one's intelligence quotient and learning another language just expands even further on the existing base. To say that learning a language is not intellectual or spiritual, I would have to respectfully disagree upon. It may not be financially rewarding to you and I can definitely see it from that angle depending on the language one decides to learn.

That being said, if it's a skillset that you don't enjoy..for whatever reason, then don't learn a language just to learn it. Knowledge acquisition works best when it's fun.