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> But, like many other things in life, the access of even a second language in my opinion gives you another tool to use as intellectual leverage to gain greater
by throwawaylinux 3y ago
> But, like many other things in life, the access of even a second language in my opinion gives you another tool to use as intellectual leverage to gain greater or richer understanding to many specific domains that you would otherwise require someone else to digest the information for you.
What are some of those domains, do you think?
- rnjesus 3y agopersonal example, but after studying mandarin for many years, i can read original texts (like novels, non-classic poetry, and so on) without having to wait for someone to translate it first
- qsort 3y ago- You can not be an effective software developer if you don't speak English (it's a second language to many of us). - If you are interested in literature, history, philosophy or adjacent fields, reading sources in their original language is an advantage. Philosophers are more likely to be fluent in German, for instance. - Reading news in foreign languages is often illuminating. - Most translations are just extremely horrible. I can only understand a tiny amount of languages, but I'd rather put in the effort to read in a foreign language than suffer through bad translations.
- evilduck 3y agoProbably depends if your view is outside of a popular language looking in or inside a popular language looking out. If you only speak English you probably aren't lacking access to to many fields of study. If you a one of the few who only speak Koro, you probably feel differently about to volume of knowledge available to you.