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What language(s) should one learn to be exposed to the most valuable
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What language(s) should one learn to be exposed to the most valuable literature? I'm starting to get overwhelmed how much I need to read can only be through trans*lation
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>>8283490
Plebs learn German, French, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, etc
Contrarians learn Esperanto
Patricians learn Tuvan
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sigh why do we have to have these stupid fucking threads every day. you said it yourself, OP: there's an "overwhelming" fucklot of shit in not English.

my advice? learn Greek and Latin. (but you can make a case for basically any language, which is why your question is dumb af.)
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Hungarian
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Luxebourgish
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Aramaic is a good but really obscure one, I'd say.
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swahili has the greatest literature only hipsters would be say otherwise
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English, German, Ancient Greek, Latin.
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In order:
>English
>German
>French
>Russian
>Italian
>Spanish
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>>8283861

>No Latin
>No Ancient Greek
>No Arabic
>No Farsi
>No Sanskrit
>No Old English
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>>8283861
>german literature above french and russian
Wew lad
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>>8283861
>No Portuguese

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