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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the OP is asking about linguistics departments, which are usually more rigorous than learning a language for fulfilling core requirements.

With that said, it depends what your kid wants to do, such as general or applied, computational/machine learning, or cognitive science. There are avenues for any language in future linguistics research in grad school but not sure how less popular European languages work other than what PPs have said about majoring in a language, which seems very limiting without a second major/minor, unless you want to go the grad school route anyway.[/quote]

Yes, please don't confuse simply knowing another language, and being a linguistics expert. Not at all the same caliber of mind.

My kids are trilingual, I don't think it's a big deal. They took, or will take, APs in their languages, but have no interest in linguistics. 
For them, it's just another "nice to have" box to check.

OP, you need to research linguistics majors. Everyone is dying for anything that can be associated to machine learning. So computational linguistics is probably a sought-after field. Your kid should learn Python and talk about computational linguistics in one of their essays.

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