I grew up in a household of my parents language, but speak predominately English. I also know enough French to navigate Quebec, and with a week, can remember enough Spanish from HS to go to Mexico. I learned bits of Russian and Chinese to speak to my coworkers, not enough to be dropped in a town and survive though.
And honestly, even after all of that… I rather people speak one language. And study international studies/geography and history.
Technology will reach a point where translations are near fluid. Traveling to Japan, I winged it with studying Japanese where my wife took courses, and we both ended up navigating in English and using Google translate, with very little hiccups.
I grew up in a household of my parents language, but speak predominately English. I also know enough French to navigate Quebec, and with a week, can remember enough Spanish from HS to go to Mexico. I learned bits of Russian and Chinese to speak to my coworkers, not enough to be dropped in a town and survive though.
And honestly, even after all of that… I rather people speak one language. And study international studies/geography and history.
Technology will reach a point where translations are near fluid. Traveling to Japan, I winged it with studying Japanese where my wife took courses, and we both ended up navigating in English and using Google translate, with very little hiccups.