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Other than English and Spanish, what would be a very useful language to learn? (lemmy.ml)

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If I could only learn one additional language, and I wanted to travel the world, what language would serve me best other than English or Spanish?

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Kinda surprised that no one has mentioned sign language. I feel that it's use cases expand outside the original intent, especially if other people in your circle understand it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

But OP was asking about travelling the world. Sign language wouldn't help with that.

Sign language isn't one language. There's American Sign Language, British Sign Language, Australian Sign Language, Nigerian Sign Language, etc.

American Sign Language and British Sign Language are completely unintelligible to each other.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

That's a good point. I guess I just read the title and everyone else's comments saying stuff like "Python" and "TypeScript"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

How many different standards are there for sign?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 19 hours ago

Basically every country has their own sign language or an imported sign language that became standardized.

But learning any sign language will make it a lot easier for you to communicate with signers of any sign language. Not because they’re necessarily similar to each other, but because sign language varies a lot regionally anyway (and even locally depending on what method of signing you’re taught) and it will be much more natural to find ways to work around it and communicate with each other.