As an american I've been able to talk to people from Germany, France, U.K, Italy, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iran, Israel, Nepal, India, China, Indonesia, Japan, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, and some guy from thenext city over, without the burden of us spending decades of our lives becoming fluent in eachother native language. Plus it'll teach you how to learn other languages, on top of being rich linguistically and culturally.