I was wondering if anyone had any experience of learning a new language (a human language not a programming one) and whether is has helped you get ahead in your career.

I'm assuming that the new language is one other than English which I think is fairly essential to programming as most programming resources seem to be english.

The reason I ask is I speak Arabic and was told that it would give me an edge when I was looking for jobs, and yet so far in my current job it's completely irrelevant and in my last job I had it was used but I didn't get any special "appreciation" for speaking it.