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If you could add a second language (or x # if already multilingual) what would it be?

If you could speak English, Chinese and Spanish then you could basically talk to 50% of the people on Earth

No better 3 language combo

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This is a very big question – whether all ideas are translatable.

In my experience there are certain topics that are so deep that understanding them is about struggling with them – in many cases, struggling with the fact that your own language/culture has no clean equivalent for the term you're thinking about.

The Greek words "logos" and "phusis" were like this for me.

I think translation is sufficient for many of concrete things and ideas, but for certain fundamental ones, I don't think anything will ever replace the individual learner's need to grapple with source languages. (Greek being just one of them. We should also look into Nietzsche's German, Rousseau's French, etc)

(All this being said, I think AI is an incredible tool for grappling with other languages. I use it with Greek etc)

Feels like AI could just translate anything that's not a living language 

Feels kinda like a waste of time to learn any non-living language unless you're a historian or its essential to your line of work

Add in Ancient Greek and you'll get a great bang for your buck on wisdom:

Homer, Thucydides, Heraclitus, Socrates, Xenophon, Plato, and Aristotle

both, missing the chinese language , but speaking english spanish and french fluently , and a bit of this and a bit of that

💯 
Got 2 out of three and that is already hugely helpful

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I still aspire to work on it! 

I have a minor in mandarin but i’ve lost a lot of it

Haha that's the exact language combo I went for growing up but sadly it all deteriorated since I didn't actively use it :(

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Damn that’s wild

They’re well set up for life

My nephews are basically this. Born in Guatemala, lived there till 10 years old. Moved to Taiwan, now speak fluent Spanish, Mandarin, Taiwanese, English. When I went to visit them they coordinated and placed an order in all 4 languages insane to see it live.

Crazy part, it’s all a part of the Taiwanese government program for business

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haha waah woah such similar backgrounds. I spent a few months in China in college as well.

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I need to get back into it or start on Duolingo 

I have a minor in Mandarin and lived in Shanghai for 5 months when I was in college

Very rusty but would love to pick it back up

i still use my mandarin textbooks from college to keep the skills always a bit fresh.

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Have you heard of South America?

Spanish is spoken everywhere in South America besides Brazil

Spanish?
i thought it was only spoken in Spain 
instead you should have said Hindi

Not forgetting :)

I think my 4th choice would either be Portuguese or Arabic tbh

looks like I should start learning Spanish 👀

Damn! I already speak English and Spanish, but I choose to study Japanese 😆 I assume I will have to try Chinese later.

English, French and Spanish for me, I would like to learn those