ok so im just trying to figure out what languages are useful no matter where your game's set and uh. this plus local languages, basically?

cantonese, english, german, japanese, mandarin, or'zet, russian, spanish, sperethiel

afaict it'd take the linguist quality and 24 knowledge skill points to be good with all of these at chargen. which is mildly absurd. at best i could only fit in one more language on top (by taking bilingual)