Apropos of nothing: people sharply underrate the utility of knowing a high-consequences language pair. You'd think bilingual people are common in the world, and they are. And you'd think that they're common in corridors of power, and they are. And yet...
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Estimate for yourself, for some target consequential organization and language pair: * How many people do they have total who speak that well enough to order dinner? * To read a newspaper? * A journal article? This is a sobering exercise once you know the numbers at any org.
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And when you Venn diagram the language skill with any deep professional expertise on any subject, the pool of people who can read it and understand it gets very constrained very, very, very fast.
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