Meeting someone half way is nice. I like being able to talk to random other people speaking English as a foreign language. It's useful. It sure would be nice i

Meeting someone half way is nice. I like being able to talk to random other people speaking English as a foreign language. It's useful. It sure would be nice if English speakers would pick up some phrases or a basic understanding in a language of their choosing. Also, languages aren't equal. Translating poetry is an art and most likely lossy. Emotions don't work the same across languages. I can tell my (ironically: Chinese) gf "I love you", but while that is true it is merely a crappy word by word translation of "Ich liebe dich". The latter is the sensation I feel, the former me describing as a 3rd party observer what's going on. Half-assed. Don't learn Chinese because you read online articles claiming you should, don't stop learning Chinese because online articles call it useless and maybe do try to know more than one language..