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A.A. believes that we should all learn six languages that fall into four categories:
1. Classical languages of one’s own culture.
2. Major living languages of one’s broader culture.
3. The international language.
4. Exotic languages.
Examples:
A well-educated Westerner should know: a) Latin & Greek, b) English & French, Spanish or German, c) Russian, and d) Persian or Arabic or Sanskrit or Hindi or Chinese or
A well-educated Middle-Easterner should know: a) Arabic, b) Persian, Turkish, & Hebrew, c) English & French, and d) Latin or Urdu or Japanese or
A well-educated Indian should know: a) Sanskrit & Persian or Arabic, b) Hindi/Urdu & Bengali, Marathi or Gujarati or, c) English, and d) Italian or Korean or Swahili or
A well-educated Easterner should know: a) Classical Chinese, b) Mandarin, Japanese, & Korean, c) English, and d) Greek or Pali or Persian or
And so on.
The first category gives us insight into our past, our present and possibly even our future.
The second category helps us to understand the cultures that surround us or that are close to us.
The third category puts us in touch with the world at large.
The fourth category broadens us and challenges us to look at the world in a very different way.
First of all, I don't know if the examples were written by Arguelles himself or by the user.
Do you agree with the languages he chose for well educated people around the world? Would you add some other categories?
What I thought it was missing is the well educated people in African continent. How would you divide African continent and which languages would you write as examples?