My Special Recommendation about Another Language to Learn
Here in Japan, as almost anywhere else in the free world, most young people aged between 10 and 17 or 18 learn English during their school years. That's quite reasonable because it's been the foremost international language for several decades now. And a great many university students in Japan even go on to learn other languages in addition to English. According to a survey conducted at the University of Tokyo in 2017, the respondents' choices of the second language to learn and their percentages were as follows: Spanish (29%), Chinese (22%), French (21%), German (17%), Russian (5%), Italian (5%) and Korean (1%).
When I was a university student decades ago, my choice was German because of my admiration for Goethe and Beethoven, but unfortunately I stopped learning it when I quit university and consequently I haven't mastered it at all. Germanophile as I have been for many years, I find it extremely difficult for me to motivate myself to master it unless I move to Germanosphere, where quite understandably local people aren't very open to those who won't speak German as I felt during my two-week visit to Germany last July. Considering what I'm planning to do, English is unquestionably the very language in the world I think I should master at all costs.
That being said, it isn't that I'm not at all interested in any other languages. The fact is that for almost six years now I've been irresistibly attracted to another language: Hebrew. The official language of the State of Israel, Hebrew is currently - as of 2026 - said to be spoken by 5 to 6.6 million in Israel and by 9 to 10.6 million worldwide. Not so many speakers? True, but this language is too special to be depreciated just because it doesn't have a very large population of the speakers. Firstly, it is in Biblical Hebrew that the Old Testament was originally written. Secondly, almost all of the people who speak Modern Hebrew are Jewish. To learn Hebrew - Biblical and/or Modern - is one spiritual way you can bless Israel and the Jewish people. If you bless them in any way, then Genesis 12:3 will be applied and accordingly you will be blessed by God. So it could be said that those who learn the language will only benefit from it. To doubt it is to doubt God. How risky! Such being the case, a Hebrew textbook has always been beside me for almost six years now and not a day goes by but I open it to get something from it. So if you are interested, why don't you join me?
Anyway, be good to the Jewish and you'll be more or less prosperous. Only those who are under Satanic control will say no to it. There'll be no point in standing with them. Be wise enough not to be the last to bless Israel and the Jewish people!
