For me, it was learning English. Although I do make a few mistakes here and there, I’m mostly perfect on it.
The amount of resources you have access to dramatically increases when you know a universal language. I say dramatically because it made me realize how much my native language lacks when it comes to certain topics. The most obvious one to me was tech and computers. Everybody knows how to use Windows but there are very few resources about stuff beyond Windows. It’s actually sad. [insert sad face here]
It’s kind of weird that English became a universal language. There must have been better choices.
Apparently not, or those would’ve become the universal.
History is what caused it. Though it’s pretty fascinating that in Shakespeare’s time, English (in England) was considered the commoner’s tongue, while the upper classes spoke French.
This is part of Shakespeare’s legacy (he wrote and performed in English) , and also shows why the early documents in America are worded the way they are. No American says “four score and 20 years”, that’s from French.
My whole life has been a lie.
I mean the options at the time were English, French and maybe Spanish with Dutch being a distant 4th so… Not really? Nowadays your options are English or Mandarin.
French and Spanish would have been better.
I don’t speak Spanish but I do speak French and I disagree.