<p>Thank you ucbalumnus! So as a person who speaks none of the above languages, I should take courses on them in college right? Because I don’t think I will have time to learn a new language once the PhD program starts.</p>
<p>SoMuch2Learn: I think they require this because people who get a PhD do so because they want to become a professor eventually. And as an academician, I think, one should be able to read the subject he teaches/researches in another language. Look at the history, there are many famous mathematicians from Germany, France and Russia. I wonder why they didn’t put Chinese in that list. Because it is to hard to learn?</p>