Definitely! That's a bit different from how you previously put it above:

> Learn the languages that people actually speak, they are much harder to learn, but in return you can actually talk to people, which is the point of learning a language.

Maybe we could emend this to

"that people actually speak or have spoken ... in return you can actually experience other people's thoughts and feelings, which is the point of learning a language"

and then it would work well for widely-spoken modern and ancient languages alike?