A problem is that the left is going around to 3rd world countries and pushing native language. This is proving to be detrimental to kids as they have enough of a hard time learning English which is proven to lead them out of poverty more than anything else. RElearning outdated language has no real positive results unless you are a hate whitie fanatic.

Very thought provoking, I would say to learn one language from each primary segment of the world, midland Europe, East Asian, Arabic and English, considering the mythology unique to each corner of the globe a visually oriented and imaginative child can use the connection between the imagery the words induce surrounding their origin to think more laterally. Maybe, I mean the ability to think laterally is important and I think the more tools at your disposal to see more images which make you draw more connections would undoubtedly lead to some quality insights. Just look at Carl Jung who knew Latin, English and German and the Mythology behind many cultures, I believe your idea is correct and holds alot of water, and I hope I was able to further it, thank you very much for posting it.

Learning a new language at a young age is ideal. Knowledge is power!!

French & Spanish

I listened to someone who claimed that his southern Italian dialect had no future tense and that limited the achievements of his culture.
I think German and English are great for technology but not so much for emotional life.
Gaelic has advantages for concept construction as it's a "remnant language" and children can comprehend complexity easier because the roots of the complex word are present in it. Also, unlike English, a person's identity isn't defined by their actions. You can't BE stupid and more than you can be a fire hydrant. Emotions or actions are (on) you as is your name. YOU are seperate. You can't call a kid "stupid".
I love the descriptive aspect of Yiddish.
French and Italian are fantastic for terms around art.

I think the movie "Arrival" was about this very idea. great movie btw...if you have not seen the movie be forewarned - it is very confusing at first because you don't know the movie jumps forward and backwards in time. I recommend watching it at least 2 times.

very interesting question

Good topic.

I've alway wanted to learn Japanese, started a few times but haven't been able to stick with it. I've heard it's a beautiful language in its complexity.

If you haven't seen it I recommend watching the movie Arival, it's a Syfy all about the alien language and how it changes the way your brain works as you understand it.

I've had a similar effect myself as I learn to communicate better with my body. it's really been opening my mind in a way I wasn't expecting, I've even used the consepts from that movie to try explaining it to people.

I think your onto something here, and it doesnt help that at large we have been dumbing down the English language over the years.

Any language is fine for thinking. For communication it is best to have a full understanding of one language and not a fair understanding of a few languages. Used to be that the reason we still learned Latin was that it was the universal base of all languages of western society. It was adopted by the scientific community.

Words are essentially sounds that have concepts so in any language there are sounds that convey concepts. Sometimes an idea or concept is difficult to put into words but that may be due to a limited vocabulary. Best thing I can suggest for the individual is to improve vocabulary to improve understanding and thinking. Having said that I do believe that the structure of language does have an impact and can provide a different angle to view things from.

I don't know that one language can really capture all dimensions of thinking. I think the best option would be to learn a few different languages from different language families (don't just learn romance languages).

I found that when I learned Spanish, I was able to think about things differently. I think just understanding grammar and language is helpful in its own right in thinking about things.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were some lost or holy language that was able to maximize our brain capacity.