curieux (Score 1)

I was a teacher of English as a second language for a major language school for some years. The worst students we had were engineers (engineers live in a world of formulas and have trouble understanding that language is illogical). Also, for an adult who only speaks one language, learning a new language with any degree of fluency is the most difficult thing you will ever do. That said, speaking more than one language is always an asset. It's too bad that the useful languages for an engineer are so foreign to English (Manderin, Japanese, Hindi. etcé)