Ong cites Lear, his avant-garde interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedy flavored with elements of Indonesian martial arts, Noh drama and Beijing opera -- and performed in different languages by a multi-national cast, half Singaporean, a good part Japanese, with a sprinkling of other Asians.
English is the international language of the sea so we don't really have to learn another language although we do pick up nautical terms in different languages and some pilots are multi-lingual and some are not, it's not desperately important that you know another language.