This would be great if you wanted to talk to yourself without anyone understanding what you’re saying, for example, or if you didn’t want anybody to know what you were writing down. It might also be useful if you enjoy lots of foreign language media (see music, tv shows, movies) and want to experience the “original” rather than through dubs and subs.
Personally, I would go for either Russian or Estonian, both of which are because I frequently listen to lots of music that are in those languages, and they aren’t spoken by any of my friends.
JAPANESE
I wanna watch Anime without needing subtitles…
Also sometimes meaning get lose in translation…
I’d love to rewatch Steins;Gate with proficiency in Japanese.
Oh btw, I have never met a Japanese person (I mean maybe I could’ve had walked passed by an ethnic Japanese that have been too Americanized for me to know their ethnicity… cuz then they’re just “Asian American” to me, and it’d be hard to tell) and never heard anyone IRL actually speaking Japanese fluently…
So yea knowledge of Japanese can impress a lot of Western weebs.
I could even pretend to be Japanese for the lulz… since I’m ethnic Chinese and I doubt most Americans would even be able to tell the difference xD (I mean I probably can’t tell apart East Asian ethnicities either, despite me being East Asian myself)
Good news, if you can read and write Chinese you’re already partly there!