<p>Depends what you want to do, and your facility in learning languages. It’s fairly common for classics majors to study Latin and Greek at the same time. It’s not uncommon for Romance language majors to study 2 Romance languages—some combination of French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. A Latin American Studies major might also profitably study Spanish and Portuguese or Spanish and French. A Middle Eastern Studies major might study Arabic and Hebrew or Arabic and Farsi; a South Asian Studies major, Hindi-Urdu and ancient Sanskrit or some other major contemporary Indian language; an East Asian Studies major, Mandarin and Japanese, and so on. But I agree with M’s Mom that you don’t want to spend a lot of college time in intro-level courses, or in the study of random languages. If it’s part of a focused plan, and especially if you’re moving to an advanced level in one or more languages, it can be a very positive thing. Where I disagree with M’s Mom, though, is with the suggestion that languages are so easy to pick up that you can just do that anytime, anywhere. The sad fact is, most of us don’t; in fact, most U.S. college graduates don’t achieve an advanced level of fluency in even a single foreign language. IMO, it’s one of the great shortcomings of our educational system.</p>