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Do you know any other languages aside from English?

Is there any language you'd love to learn? If so, why?
 

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Shawn wrote: Fri Feb 06, 2026 2:12 pm Do you know any other languages aside from English?

Is there any language you'd love to learn? If so, why?
I took Spanish in high school and college. I was exposed later to a lot of Korean and knew the alphabet.
 

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I use Babbel on my phone.

I'm trying to learn Spanish, German, Polish, and Russian - mainly just to know them.

When I was getting my Master's Degree in Anti-Terrorism and Counterintelligence, I was actively learning Arabic but I let that go and forgot it all.
 

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Shawn wrote: Fri Feb 13, 2026 12:07 am I use Babbel on my phone.

I'm trying to learn Spanish, German, Polish, and Russian - mainly just to know them.

When I was getting my Master's Degree in Anti-Terrorism and Counterintelligence, I was actively learning Arabic but I let that go and forgot it all.
I've never been fluent in another language. That's because there hasn't been enough immersion.
 

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You can often make more money when you speak additional languages.
 

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Shawn wrote: Mon Feb 16, 2026 5:58 pm You can often make more money when you speak additional languages.
Yes, that's right.
 

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Especially if you can read, write, and speak different languages.
 

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Shawn wrote: Thu Feb 19, 2026 12:06 am Especially if you can read, write, and speak different languages.
Robin Williams was into foreign languages:

https://www.snowboarder.com/snowboarder ... guages-411
 

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There is a guy on YouTube I watch, Sabbatical and he knows a lot of different languages and travels all over the world using them.

His videos are pretty cool.
 

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I'd like to get into learning languages, but I have to prioritize what can make me money. Well, languages can make you money, but I already got a lot of math and science knowledge and I'd rather focus on that.
 

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