Why You Should Learn That Useless Language You Want to Learn

Languages! Many of them exist. Some can help you with your day-to-day life even in countries otherwise largely monolingual. Others are so far away from your home, they are not relevant to your life at all and will never be. We tend to be drawn to the latter, and why that is? Honestly, I blame the fact that the latter often has more options while the former only gives you five to pick from at most. So, the odds of a language that caught your interest being one that is useless to you are high. However, just because a language has no use in your day-to-day life does not mean it is pointless to learn.

On the contrary, learning any language at all has massive benefits in both your brain and socially. Impressing people may be one benefit, but there are so many other better reasons behind doing it.

Language Learning is Good For Your Brain

The first and biggest benefit behind learning a language is what it does to your brain. Like, ridiculously good. They say the best thing to do for your brain is to read books, but learning a second language is practically a powerful preventative medication against diseases such as Dementia and a hack to improving your decision-making skills. (https://www.britishschoolbarcelona.com/blog/neuroscience-and-language-learning-benefits-for-the-brain/)

Learning One Language Makes the Process Easier for Future Languages

Another brain-related benefit is the fact that learning a second language helps make learning a third, a fourth, and so on easier. If the language you want to learn is closely related to a language useful in your area, then this is even more true as you will already be familiar with many words and grammar concepts that those two languages share, even if they may share many false friends as well. (https://lingvist.com/blog/why-is-learning-your-third-language-easier/)

Alright, enough with the boring brain talk. What about the stuff people actually care about? The cultural access? The communication? The arts!? Well, there is plenty of fun benefits as well!

You'll Get Access to More Online Communities

There are more hidden corners of the internet than what TOR can access. We are on different language islands, separated both by algorithms keeping us apart and our lack of ability to look things up in different languages. Tech companies love keeping us apart, even if we can technically reach it. Accessing other digital language islands is an uphill battle every step of the way, with algorithms trying its damnest to keep you in your native language.

But when you build that bridge, you get access to more internet than you can even imagine. There are so many amazing communities existing right under your nose, all of them waiting to meet you! However, you can't find them, nor interact with them, unless you learn your target language.

You unlock more art

Speaking of more: you unlock access to more art. Depending on the language, you can enjoy classics or pop culture in their original languages without any need of translation. You gain access to more amazing pieces you can use as inspiration for your own future works that you may have not come across otherwise. You would no longer be limited to what English has to offer or relying on translators that may warp a piece to fit your culture.

Language Learning is Culture Study

About culture...language and culture are closely related. You can't learn a language without learning about the culture connected to it. If you don't care about the culture behind the language, then sorry, but you don't really like the language. You're not going to learn your target language properly without the culture. It's literally impossible! You may as well move on to a language you actually would like.

You Might Help Preserve a Dying Language

If the language that caught your interest is a dying language, such as one of the hundreds of indigenous languages in the world, then you are participating in something awesome and much bigger than you. To learn one of these languages is to help keep it alive and in use. Even learning "hello" is something you should realize is really cool!

Conclusion

All in all, languages in general are very cool. They are not just words and grammar; they are a worldview. Learning a language is expanding who you are in a way nothing else truly can. So, go ahead. Whatever language you want to learn, even if it may not help you in your daily life, learn it. We are in the best era in human history for it. You'll be surprised by what is on the internet for free.

If you would like to read on, I have this blog post about other cool ways you can spend your time that may catch your fancy: https://dextiveblog.blogspot.com/2026/01/coolest-ways-to-spend-your-time.html

If you're ESL, you can practice your English using these fantastical writing prompts: https://dextiveblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/writing-prompts-for-when-youre-bored.html

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