If you're trying to travel in Eastern Europe, unfortunately the older generation tends to speak or at least understand Russian. It's changing of course, but still it's a useful language if you want to travel that part of the world. Hard to learn!
I speak French because I grew up in Ottawa and went to school half-French, half-English after grade 4 (before it was all French). I also did graduate school at the U of Ottawa where all the administration and half my coworkers were French so I got a good chance to use it - and now I work with some people from Quebec and France. The only way to keep a language in your head is to use it regularly. I took German in high school, went to Germany, and realized I didn't remember 99% of what I learned, because I hadn't spoken it in 10 years.
I was bored at work and learned Estonian from my friend. There was no reason to learn it (and there's so few people who actually speak it) but it wound up being useful when I went to Estonia. People there were suprised that I could speak it... it's not common to have foreigners speaking it.
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