Knowing more than just one language is such an important tool in life, you can open yourself up to so many new experiences if you let yourself learn tools like another language. Travel, people, conversation, and even work look different when you acquire those tools.
Not to mention, if you do not tell people about your skill, you can have some clever opportunities to reveal that fact in a way that would truly make an impact. Take the woman in this Reddit story for example, who decided to reveal to her husband's family that she knew German only after she heard what they had to say about her beyond her back. Since they were not aware that she understood them, the family would say some pretty mean things about OP (original poster) while she was in a room. When she could not take it anymore, OP decided to reveal her secret, which resulted in quite an uproar.
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