Top 5 Most Useful Languages To Learn

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Top 5 Most Useful Languages To Learn

English. English is the universal language so that’s necessary.
The language of the people around you. Always take into account where you’re at – lots of people speak Arabic, Hindi, and Russian, but if you’re living and/or working in Rwanda and learn any of those before Kinyarwanda you’re an idiot.
The language of people who are never going to learn either. If you’re an English speaker it’s not useful or efficient that you learn Spanish or French like most people think, the fact is that most French and Spanish speaking people are already doing the hard work of communication for you from the other way ’round by learning English.
1. Language learning is about one-point communication. If you can speak to someone in any one language proficiently you’re mostly wasting time by learning how to speak to them again in another language. Move on, learn how to speak with people you cannot communicate with at all, don’t waste time reinventing the wheel.
The language of people you greatly respect and desire respect from. Most people learn a language outside of their own simply because they’re immensely interested in its associated culture; you’ll run into a lot of people that learn Mandarin because they find Chinese history and literature fascinating, people who learn Italian because they love the food and find Italian women beautiful beyond compare, and people who learn Esperanto because they’re language nerds – for all the reasons that people learn a language outside of utility, they’re learning it as a form of respect. The best way to show a culture and its people respect is to learn their language proficiently, and, reciprocally, it’s the best way to get respect from them as well. When you speak fluently to someone in their native language, and they can clearly tell that you didn’t grow up with it but actively pursued it yourself, they’ll see you in a much better light because they understand that you respect their culture enough to dedicate a great amount of time to it.
1. The importance of the reciprocity of respect and of how people around the world think of you is illustrated by that old common joke, “What do you call a person who speaks three languages? Trilingual. What do you call a person who speaks two languages? Bilingual. What do you call a person who speaks one language? American!”
And body-language. Body-language is the universal non-verbal language. If you want to get technical then this is really the most important language there is because without knowing it we couldn’t survive as a species. But I list this last because most people learn this in infancy, and because though there are universal traits to it there are many minor differences in the body languages of people around the world, dialects if you will, and most are learnt passively alongside the learning of the associated verbal language.

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