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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are two different thoughts on this. One is that people who know two languages have certain advantages in terms of brain functions. You can google/research this. There is a wide array of studies and discussions about this, including the importance of the language pairing, in terms of i[b]f they are similar, such as German-Englis[/b]h, or dissimilar, such as Korean-English.

A second thought on being bilingual is potential job/trade advantages. But here, you have to decide whether or not you will be immersed in such a bilingual environment. There are relatively few jobs/trade in the US where true bilingual capability has an advantage. I know they are out there, but it's few and far in between. For example, immigration lawyers that serve specifically the Chinese community would benefit from also speaking Mandarin.

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If you think German is similar to English, you have never studied German.[/quote]

DP and fluent German speaker here. English ist a Germanic language and yes there are many similarities und connections between the two.

https://en.m.wikiversity.org/wiki/Germanic_languages[/quote]

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