On a Whim or Planned

If you were to learn a new language, would you only do it if you thought you might use it?  Would you need to be planning a trip to the foreign country whose language you had chosen? That is how many people think.  I however can invest large amounts of time in learning a language when I have very little chance of using it just for the joy of the experience.  I have never had a passport or, therefore, travelled abroad, but at different times I have dabbled in French (at school), Italian, German, Spanish, Icelandic and recently in Russian.  Language is fascinating.  It worries me a little that I may be trying to reverse Babel.  After all God caused mankind to have different languages then so that they would move apart and stop hatching plans which were against God’s will. Now that the language barrier is somewhat solved by the use of interpreters at global meetings, still the things that men hatch are mostly detrimental and crises like that of the migrants through Europe are not helped as they should be.