But there are 1 billion who speak Mandarin better than you. I don't agree with learning a language because it's useful. Unless scholar or obsessed with a literature, not necessary to read great books either, some translations are good. Only reason to learn language: aesthetics https://twitter.com/wjfrisby/status/1043947941596196866 …
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Remember that the greatest writers, in ancient Greek and French at the heights of those civilizations, learned no other languages.
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Extremely true when it comes to the greatest writers writing in ancient Greek and French, but I'll add that the greatest French writers usually mastered many languages but didn't brag about it - at all.
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