Welcome to Radical Personal Finance a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills, insight, and encouragement you need, live a rich and meaningful life now, while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My name is Joshua, I am your host and today we're going to talk about learning a language.

I'm going to first give you a few reasons as to why you should seek to learn additional

languages to what you already speak and then give you some helpful tools, things that have been useful to me as I have

tried to enhance my own language ability. I give you a number of different tools that I hope will

help you and will serve you. To begin, why? Why should

you learn an additional language to the languages that you speak right now? Many reasons why you should do it. Let's start with the financial ones

to be most relevant to radical personal finance. When you think about your life and

your earning ability, in order for you to earn more money you need to

systematically develop additional levels of skill and every additional

skill that you can develop will enhance your opportunities to earn money if it's

properly marketed and properly positioned. So I want you to imagine that you are

jobless right now and you are a high school dropout who spends no time

who has not done anything productive has developed no economically valuable skills,

you're a high school dropout, whose primary skill is, you know, drinking beer and getting high.

Right, that's it. Now you want to go get a job. What do you do? Well you've got basically nothing to offer

except possibly your physical strength and ability. So you might qualify for a job moving furniture or you might

qualify for a job you know driving a lawnmower. I've done those jobs I've made

money at those jobs it's tough money but that's all you're qualified for.

That's about all you're going to do and you're never going to make very much money in those situations.

So if you want to increase your earning ability, you have to develop your human capital.

You have to develop your skills.

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