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How about wanting to, I don't know, travel to and work in foreign countries one day?

Having a CS education can help pay for that, and help you get work visas. I'm not sure how studying Shakespeare can help though.

Also, learning French won't help you in Germany, but learning JavaScript will help you land a job there if you speak English (a friend of mine who doesn't speak German moved there to do just that).

Having experience in learning a language helps you to learn more languages. In this particular example, understanding that nouns have grammatical gender in French is a helpful bit of linguistics to know that softens the blow when the JavaScript developer decides to learn German.

So you spend a year to save a day. Doesn't sound very wise.

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