>people without linguistics training seem to find it useful for discovering nuances in their own languages that they hadn't considered. Learning any foreign la

>people without linguistics training seem to find it useful for discovering nuances in their own languages that they hadn't considered. Learning any foreign language will tend to do that, though. It's a function of being forced to consider your native tongue as a language, rather than just speaking it. Plus if you learn a foreign language, you will have the advantage of being able to talk to an established base of people who speak it.