It's disturbing how many guardian articles we seem to be getting lately here. I left reddit to escape these types of articles. Also, it's pointless to learn ge

It's disturbing how many guardian articles we seem to be getting lately here. I left reddit to escape these types of articles. Also, it's pointless to learn german - especially if you know english as english is already a germanic language. What we ( I'm referring to americans ) should learn is LATIN and ANCIENT GREEK as they are truly "foreign" languages that had such a strong influence on english and western civilization. I studied Latin and Greek independently AFTER I graduated college and it's shocking to me how useful it would have been during my academic career. Not only would it help you understand the english language better, it helps with the understanding of western civilization and of course expands your vocabulary immensely since so many of english words ( especially technical/scientific ) is derived from these two "dead" languages.