The Financial Times – Michael Skapinker 
The value in learning other languages is not just what it does for your ability to communicate. It is what it does for you. It gives you a new way of thinking, an insight into others’ lives. A world in which we all communicate through translation apps may, eventually, be more efficient — imagine all those who have to talk English to us today being able to speak their native tongues. But it will also be a world poorer in genuine understanding.
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