In the nature of the European cooperation, I propose that the European Union should give out prizes to people who can speak significant numbers of european languages.
Perhaps 1 million euros for a person speaking all of the EU significant languages.
Then smaller prizes for people who speak some fraction (5 or 10 different languages perhaps)
I don’t know how many people could manage the million euro level (perhaps only a few hundred people, maybe even none?) but it would be a good thing to encourage us all to speak each other’s languages.
It would also offer a clear and obvious reward to study languages. (Like winning the lottery, just more predictably achievable)
🙂