Yes, let's all speak english, eat on mc donalds and do everything the same way as everybody

I cannot agree less on the general suggestion of avoiding to study foreign languages. This suggestion probably comes out of a brit-american person used to mess around in the planet thinking that anyone shall obey to their dictat.

Freedom is a path that forces the individual in reshaping his/her knowledge and making it blunter. Languages are knowledge, they make your brain work, both from the computational point of view and from the cultural one.

Coding languages are great and you're right, I also suggest to study them. But it's not a mutually exclusive scenario...coding languages are utilitarian tools, foreign languages are a tool of for culture.

As a final remark, tools for translation are out there, but that does not mean that it's not worth learning the language.

Sooner or later, anyone will happen to be a foreigner somewhere, being it a party o a different country. The ability to adapt is one of the best tools human beings have, just cultivate it.

Hard to have a real conversation with someone via translation apps. It works for very short encounters.

You're missing the point here. Learning another language is not only a means of communication but also another way of thinking. For technical purposes it makes no distinction, that's for sure, but the moment you step outside that bare-bones use you will start missing increasingly more and more. I'm a native spanish speaker and I can not imagine my existence not understanding english from heart. Translations can't get anywhere close. So that much, that many translated movies have some lines directly changed to a completely different meaning because the original english one makes absolutely no sense regardless of reformulation, or might even sound hopelessly dumb.