Hasn't resulted in a good paid job yet. In Switzerland, most kids need to learn at least 3 languages anyway (most common: German, French, English), and many of them learn a fourth language in high school. Then you go to the university and realize that speaking 5 different languages isn't as extraordinary as you think.Goddamn. Thats a lot of knowledge![]()
When it comes to the very well paid jobs, the market is filled with people who can speak English, German and French perfectly. It's actually quite annoying, because my French is lacking.
I think there are some misunderstandings.I've been studying Japanese every day for 5 years, and feel nowhere near fluent. I even lived there for a year and attended a University in Tokyo. I am not a particularly gifted learner, especially when it comes to foreign language. You, apparently, are quite gifted. So my question for you is: How long have you been studying Japanese, and would you consider yourself to be fluent?
1) I'm not gifted in learning languages, in fact my strength lies more in math and logic, I assume. I need to take my time for getting the feeling of a language, I need to learn the grammar before I can make some sentences. I know a guy who don't know any grammar except the very basics, yet he can speak 4 languages super fluently. Now that's what I call gifted!
2) I've been learning Japanese for 2 months so far, therefore the answer should be obvious.

Japanese is quite difficult, because it doesn't use the common subject-verb-object structure, and given some context, ellipses are more frequent than in any languages I know. My Japanese classmate thinks that Japanese is very easy though...
Fluentness is overrated anyway, many native speaker can't speak their own language fluently at certain circumstances.