Fun! I'm surprised you haven't seen much of that around your browsing. That typically applies to me and most of the languages I'm learning. However, I do plan on travelling to the places where these languages are spoken, but that's for the distant future, so learning for fun is still my dominant reason.

because girls find it attractive for some reason and for the fun of it

In my experience, this is not true whatsoever. If it were, I'd probably be the ladies' man at my school.

Why am I learning another language? Well, I'm a seventh grader and they still haven't let me into a foreign language class, so that's one reason. Also, many, MANY, of my friends are Hispanic and randomly say stuff in Spanish and I'd like to understand. But my main reason is because of my boyfriend. He and I have been dating for about a month and a half, and it's amazing. Thing is, he comes from a Hispanic family, so multiple of his relatives speak ONLY Spanish, and I'd like to be able to communicate with them, because I love my boyfriend, and his family. This is why I spend time each and everyday, no matter if I have Cheer, or dance or any of the other million things that make my live very, VERY, busy, I find time each day.

For fun? Because it's really cool? Because it links you with several people around the world?

There are many good reasons one can learn a language, usually for entertainment and abilities to communicate with people around the world. And speaking something different from what you normally yell out is cool.

If the grammar is simple, it takes some careful thought to get what you want to say out. That's why I created my con-lang; it's not restrictive and simple to learn. So, you need to be careful if wanting to say things like "I am done" and not mean "My life is over".

Back to reasons, I guess because it's exciting. Languages are amazing and a link between people. It's nice to say something you never heard before, but you now know what it means. The thrill, the fun, the excitement! This is what I learn languages for.

Sefontila!

You shouldn't learn a language just to impress girls!

Ps: I'm problably much older than you, so ignore me ;)

tossing out business, career and traveling

that leaves only....

Like the culture, or to pick up women(worst reason ever!).

To insult people, and to watch their facial expressions when they think I'm a witch or a terrorist.

I just love history and things like and the language is a big part of that and to get the full feeling of it. It's fun to learn something new that you want to relate to.

Also, I am trying to hit on a Russian girl at school. Wish me luck!

The main reason I study foreign languages is this: whenever I meet someone who speaks a foreign language, I try to learn a few words and phrases in that language. And if I meet another person who speaks that language, I love being able to surprise them with their mother tongue.

Though I'm not much of a traveler, I still get to meet people from many different countries, since our city--and surrounding area--has been a real melting pot in recent years. In fact, our company just hired a fellow originally from Bangladesh. And even though he speaks English well enough, I'm teaching myself some conversational Bengali.

All in all, I don't need to master a foreign language (though I sure wouldn't mind if I did!), but it would be great to speak at a conversational level in many different languages.

For Spanish, I had 7 years of mandatory classes in middle and high school. I had little use for it after those classes gave me 6 college credits. My degree program didn't require foreign language anyway, so I went 3 years without using it and I lost a lot of it. In my last year of college, I had more time and a better means of transportation, so I ventured out to more areas beyond my college campus. Those areas had big Spanish speaking communities, so almost everyone I interacted with at stores and restaurants was a native Spanish speaker. I look like I'm probably a native Spanish speaker, so store clerks and food service workers almost always spoke to me in Spanish at first and then switched to English after I struggled to respond. Then I thought about it and decided that it's a pity I'm not fluent in Spanish after I took 7 years of classes. So a little over a year ago, I asked my Spanish speaking friends to start speaking to me in Spanish, I started listening to Spanish music and reading books in Spanish, and I logged back into my Duolingo account that I'd created and abandoned months before on a whim. So for Spanish, it's partly that I feel I should've put what I learned in school to use and continued using it, and partly that so many people I interact with speak Spanish. I'm pretty good at it now, but I speak slowly and I still make mistakes so I don't consider myself fluent. My goal is C1-C2 fluency.

For Tagalog, it's a family and heritage thing. My mother is from the Philippines and most of her side of the family still lives there. I don't have to learn Tagalog to communicate with them because most of them speak English, but I started making a serious effort to learn in the past few months because I can. Most of my mom's family speaks several languages because they learn Tagalog/Filipino and English in school and most of them live where Bisaya/Cebuano is the regional language, meanwhile, I grew up monolingual. My mom didn't teach me Tagalog when I was little because she was afraid I'd have the same experience as my older sister. My older sister was born on a US military base in the Philippines, so she could speak English and Tagalog. My dad retired and moved our family to the US when my sister was 4 years old, so she still spoke with a Filipino accent when she started kindergarten. The other kids mocked everything she said and the school did nothing but offer extra class time and a tutor to help her "learn English," even though she could speak it perfectly fine, just with an accent. So my mom stopped speaking to us in Tagalog and she made a point to teach my brother and I to read and write in English before we started school so the school wouldn't try to hold back our progress by "teaching us English." I learned to understand a lot of Tagalog with context because we often heard her speaking to friends and family and sometimes she uses Tagalog and Bisaya words when she forgets the English word or no translation exists. I'm in no danger of being bullied for learning Tagalog and I have resources at my disposal (though the written/online resources are few and low quality), so I may as well learn. I'll probably never be fluent, but that doesn't bother me.

For Portuguese, Italian, and French, well, Duolingo was fun so I completed these trees and had fun seeing how similar they are to Spanish. About four months ago, I realized that I would probably never even have a chance to speak those languages out loud in a conversation, so I decided to focus my energy on Spanish and Tagalog. I don't maintain these trees anymore, but every now and then I see text in these languages and it's cool that I can understand some of it.

I do it for ease of communication for those classified as the other... i spent the greater part of my childhood misunderstood by my peers and i dont want people to feel like they are not understood so i learn languages of those i know i will encounter every day.