loloolololol asdfasf asdf sl olo ool ... Even "wise" people can be wrong. The only time you're going to need to know spanish is if you want to talk to your homie jose's parents because they REFUSE, as you say to learn english. Maybe when the move to a country they should have enough consideration to learn the language.

The only earthly reason i could think of learning chinise is because it's the most widely spoken native language, but then... unless y ou go to china... or live in china town... when do you have to talk to them ? maybe if you want to be able to understand the chinise writing on the side of the missles as they are coming down.

And lastly english. Bah, my own love hate relationship with her. She is my native language. but she is an ugly one. I admit... there really is no reason to learn russian unless A, u want to talk to the russian immagrants (who most are at least courtious enough to learn english) or, if you want to go to rusia. I hope to someday completely forget english. It's so boring and stupid and structured. Once the stock market falls, and bush invades one too many countries, we wont have enough money or armed forces to defend ourselfs from canada, and they will take over, and sell everything to france. At that point, english wont be so important anymore.

To sum it up... why learn any langauge ? there is no "perfect langauge to learn" but, if you're going to take the time to learn a language... don't waste it on spanish. like, every single 3rd world country in south america has a native language of spanish.
anyways... maybe your wise teacher was good at some things, but maybe linguistics was not his cup of tea.