charliehall:
Learning any language in which a Torah essay has been written is certainly of inherent value! There is certainly enough Torah in English, German, Arabic, Ladino, and Yiddish to make learning those languages worthwhile in addition to Hebrew and Aramaic.
As a man of medicine, would you say its of inherent value for a person to become sick, since there are some great medications out there?? Torah that was written in these other languages is due to people speaking them, much the same as medications being produced due to illnesses. If one sticks to loshon Hakodesh, he’s got all the seforim he needs and doesn’t need these aids in other languages.