If you're a native English speaker, is it worth the effort

>>66451611
Nobody needs to know a foreign language. Not even here.
You learn it because it interests you or you don't.

In the time people spend watching tv and playing video games they could master a couple languages easily. You could be speaking French for the rest of your life if you just gave it 8 months. And you'd remember more of it than your postings on 4chan.

And French is a pretty good choice. It's one of the most important languages, a big language in Africa plus your neighbour speaks it.
In the Netherlands people prefer German, which has like a 100 million speakers.And for practical uses Americans might prefer Spanish.

>>66451611
>Every book worth reading has been translated into English.
murishart

>>66451991
The funny thing is not even all Paul Verhoeven movies (who made Robocop, Total Recall, Startship Troopers, Basic Instict) are known by Americans.

>>66452109
*Starship

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If it's an easy (usually European) language, the natives will be better at English than you'll ever be at their language.
If it's a hard (usually Asian) language, you could be studying for thousands upon thousands of hours and you'll never git gud.
I'm jealous of monolinguals desu, you people have it so good never having to worry about collocations and idioms and whatnot.

Learning a second language trains the mind to think in different ways, especially about abstract concepts. Is that vital? Maybe, maybe not. How important is being well-rounded to you?

>>66451611
I've spent a lot of time and money to become fluent in English as a native Japanese speaker.
It's great to be able to communicate with you like this on 4chan, but if I put the same amount of time and efforts to the STEM subjects, I could have been more successful and secure careerwise.

>>66451611
Japanase for hentai.

Anything else only to increase your "value" on job market.

>>66452109
>Verhoeven
love his works. as for dutch stuff, not only his works but also probably a bunch of dutch graphic designer/architect books as well.

>>66452281
>spent a lot of time and money
time, yes. you cant avoid it. money, no. ive only bought some used books to learn english.

>>66452281
>money

You spent money on what? Textbooks? Tutors?

>>66451611
> is it worth the effort to learn a second language?
No, it's not, at least in your case when it comes to Spanish. You'll need it after all

Because, once Trump loses big these elections, he'll be taking the republican party down with him, and as result you'll know nothing but democrat governments from then on, which means, Spanish will take a hold there, silently but surely, and in 20 or 30 years kids will learn it instead of English.