This attitude risks severely limiting the horizons of your world, and missing out on one of the most rewarding experiences of life: making connections with people that are different from you. This is especially common in America, where learning languages other than English can seem like an unnecessary luxury or an academic exercise. But for some people, language learning essentially stops after they learn to speak their own native tongue at a young age - or, for others, once they finish their required foreign language courses in high school or college. The ability to communicate through language is one of the most important things that defines us as humans.
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