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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I speak Japanese in no small part because of a spreadsheet in college which listed every language the university taught, the largest country it was spoken in, the size of their domestic software market, estimated % of professionals with biz-level English, and # of US speakers.
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I wish I still had that spreadsheet, but consequential life choice made largely based on "sort by column H descending" (and secondarily because I had learned 3 words of Japanese while shepherding my sister to our high school's anime club and so that was 3 words down, right).
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there aren't that many such pairs...
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