I heard the podcast and skimmed this article. I found that their findings and conclusions are totally irrelevant for me and I think for many people in my situat

I heard the podcast and skimmed this article. I found that their findings and conclusions are totally irrelevant for me and I think for many people in my situation/location. I am from Slovakia, where you are never more than 3 hours by car from some border. Sometimes the neighbors speak similar language like Polish, sometimes you stumble into totally different like Hungarian. And not the mention the minorities in Slovakia. Now I am living in Denmark, that is not much different So the list of languages that I yearly get in contact with is: Danish, German, Polish, Hungarian, plus languages I speak: Slovak, Czech and English. I can see the profit of learning any one of them.