I think it’s worth knowing at least 1 other language simply to appreciate how language shapes thought, but you have to get to thinking-in-it fluency at least. I grew up with thinking-level fluency in 3, but never learned any as an adult.
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see!!! this is why i care about language extinction! we get a variety of experience ;)
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I just need 1, the biggest one
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Doesn’t work like that at all for me
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polyglottalism definitely gives you an unfair advantage in terms of understanding the power of shared context
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/me pours one out for the lost french hegemony
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I've read that arithmetic is easier to teach in Mandarin because the numbers 1-10 are all single syllables that roll off the tongue, eleven and twelve aren't special, there's no weird reversal of word order in the teens, and e.g. 20 is "2 ten 1".
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Learning a second language is epistemic foreign travel.
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I’m at least 3x smarter in English than in Hindi, due to language characteristics alone, like bigger, more modern vocabulary, non-gendered nouns etc (net more like 5x since my Hindi is also relatively weaker)