I feel like i have heard and even tried learning languages to "gain" and "open doors". I am from an immigrant family and nothing can be done without a forwarding pourpus in my life and I kind-of didnt realize that learning a language could be not mainstream, not helping me "open doors" per say. I could learn a dying language and be content that I am just learning a language and not worrying about economic power i could get from it. I feel like that takes a lot of stress off of my mind and will hopefully make future learning easier.

I feel like this section in the textbook brings to mind habitat loss and that goes hand in hand with human and language and connections loss. its like the biodiversity of the world is dindling not just for everything else. humans are not above or escaping this massive problem. it just so happens that the language biodiversity loss is to less dominant languages and therefor not hear of or known- so things just keep progressing. it makes me so upset that i didnt know this sooner and that there is very little knowledge of this shared and even less being comprehended bu the public.

This makes me curious what other languages there are- perhaps this is the superior languages dominating but i dont think i know any others off the top of my head. what are the other languages if there is close to 1000? are there kinda polished learning systems for them?

I have personally experienced this. my French and Russian grandparents taught me informal/kind of americanized versions of phrases i was expected to say at home. If i were to piece these together for a conversation, it would be very hard to distinguish what i was saying. I really got a taste of this when my same french grandparent tried to formally teach me french and it was a stark contrast between my learned french and the textbook french.