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04-11-2007

 10 Reasons to learn languages

There are many issues regarding on the foreign language matters, many are asking why we need to learn the basics on them when their country can stand on their own with their own language. However, we need to consider some reasons why we need to engage with another foreign language as our second language. There are 10 reasons why need to learn foreign languages.

  • Learning foreign languages may increase global understanding; in a country where they need some supplies from another country it is necessary for both of them to negotiate and understand each other. The presence of foreign language is needed in order to get what the other country’s needs. Through foreign language, the issues about terrorism can be mended because of the proper negotiation with them, there would be peace emerge after the proper processing of negotiation. Of course the foreign language with regards to this matter is needed, if there is no presence of foreign language there could be possibilities that chaos on ones country remain.
  • It can help improve employment potential; when talking about businesses, most of the businessmen acquire employers which learn more language than they typically speaking. Since if they can only speak one language of their own, they can only speak costumers which have the same language with them. Businessmen prefer those bilingual employers because they can easily communicate with their costumers. Now, if an employee like you would not have much foreign language it would be hard for you to apply as one of the staffs in the company you wanted to apply with.
  • Learning foreign language could increase native language ability; there are studies emerge that ones a person learns a foreign language aside from their own have the possibilities that they can understand the language in general and could enhance their abilities using their language more effectively. And in fact the quote written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe that says, “Those who knows nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own”
  • Foreign language could help sharpen cognitive and life skills; learning foreign language could help not only in a language subject itself but to some other aspects also. People that have learned a foreign language confirm greater cognitive development in areas such as mental flexibility, creativity and higher order thinking skills.
  • Help students chances of entry to college or graduate school; recently, most of the universities require students of learning foreign because they need it during their researches and more. There could be difficulties for them if they let the students enter the university without knowing about a foreign language.
  • Show you appreciation with international literature, music and film; most of the languages written in the poetry are written with difficult languages, you can never appreciate the real beauty it means when you cannot understand what it is all about. Your foreign language could help you understand it better.
  • It will make your excursions more enjoyable; having with your vacation trip could be more enjoyable and full of adventure if you knew some of the foreign language, you can easily ask for information with the folks through your foreign language.
  • Foreign language could help you continue studying abroad; if you planned studying abroad, it would be nicer if you knew some foreign languages. It could help you easily adopt the culture of once country you supposed to venture your studies.
  • Helps understand your culture and yourself as well; as mentioned above, you can easily adopt and understand the other culture if you know some of the foreign language, and it could help you know more about yourself because you can picture out the culture of others through you.
  • With your foreign language you can have a lifelong friend; if you knew some foreign language, possibilities like making lifelong friends is possible. With your foreign language you can find your best friend or lifelong partner.

01-11-2007

 Enjoying a Foreign Tongue

IF one is employed by a Fortune 500 company and in a supervisory position, there are usually lots of perks that go with it. You will be entitled to a two week summer vacation and another two weeks off during the holiday season. And you’re even luckier when the company will force you to go to vacation by buying tickets and splurging fees for you. You will definitely have the time of your life enjoying a second honeymoon and so on and so forth.

What’s more enjoying is to mingle with the people in the place where you and your spouse and children will visit. Nothing beats people as the main attraction in tourism. Of course, there are numerous adorable natural and man made sights to see as well as events to watch out for and new skills to learn but humans top them all. And what better place to go to a vacation then a foreign country.

Here in Europe, it’s so easy to hop from one country to another even though you are living in the island of Britain or in the island of Ibiza. You need to get a visa to jump from one nation to the other. But the uniqueness lies with the people itself – in every country, there’s one unique language. You will soon be lost in translation eventually because you are at a dilemma on how to communicate the people in the country where you’ll spend your vacation.

That is why learning the language in the country you’ll visit is fun and important. If you’re from Spain perhaps and you want to go to Japan and you don’t speak English, then you’ll really need a translator. To hop through that predicament, you must speak a little of their language which is called Niponggo. If you’re too busy to enroll yourself in a language course, then try to browse over online because online schools now already accommodate Niponggo as one of the programs they are offering. These come with a tuition and a free audio and video disc which you may want to review long after you’ve gotten the certificate from the online language school.

Others who are in far flung areas which can only be reached by satellite Internet connection which is really expensive opt for correspondence language course. Modules may reach you only through mail which must be carried and trudged by the mailman. But then again, that’s another way to learn a language so you will not have a problem later on in communicating to the people of the place you’ll visit.

In Spain for example, enrollees in language schools are immersed to native families here so they can learn the language more. Their host families will patiently guide them to use the vocabulary of the Spanish language. In return, you are expected to share also your language and that is what is called an informal language exchange. More complicated and standardized forms of language exchange can be found in sophisticated language programs online.


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