In today’s era, multilingualism has become more than just ‘important’. Knowing a foreign language other than your native language has evolved to be extremely beneficial. Whether viewed from the financial or social aspect, being able to communicate in a foreign language helps to make ‘real’ connection with people and provides a better understanding of your language.
Why should you learn a foreign language? Learning a foreign language open up employment opportunities. For businesses, it is essential to develop and sustain a strong footing in the global economy. It is better achievable if they can understand the psychology and the language of their foreign clients. Most companies therefore, look for candidates with foreign language skills. If you are already working, knowing a foreign language may lead to special recognitions or promotions. As an employer, it will help encourage staff performance, improve customer services, and increase revenue for your company.
Apart from the financial gains learning a foreign dialect can offer a unique experience to travellers. People, who love to explore different parts of the world, know about diverse cultures, places, and lifestyle, knowing the local language can offer a life changing experience. You can easily find the places, ask for directions, and even order food. Speaking a language gives you a better understanding of the country’s culture. You can interact with people more freely providing a greater scope of meeting new people, making new friends, more fun, and enjoyment.
Another reason why you should learn a foreign language is that the knowledge of a foreign language enhances your cognitive and analytical abilities. Learning a foreign language is tough and involves a lot of mental exercise. On the individual level, it improves personality and increases your sense of self-worth. The need of language faculties has increased due to the -growing interest in students to learn foreign languages. People associated with social services need to work with diverse groups from several countries. Ability to speak in a foreign language enables them to communicate and serve people better.
The next important decision is to choose from the number of foreign languages – French, Spanish, German, or Italian- to be learnt. Whether you learn a language for a specific reason or out of interest, learning a foreign language will lead to long-term success. It will open up new avenues before you. The more language you know, the better you can express yourself.
Definitely I agree with this argument because knowing a foreign language is very important in modern day society.This helps everyone in the world for mutual communication.As mentioned in this post acquisition in foreign language learning directly influence for the global economy.So according to my point of view learning a foreign language helps in many ways for a successful journey in contemporary society.
ReplyDeleteYes. A lot of people of various ages start learning a second language due to a number of reasons. It is important to remember that it is never too late to start and that there are never too many languages to know. Learning a new language seems to be not an easy task, as it demands dedication and some time. As for children – learning a second language is utterly beneficial for their academic success.Thus in order to be competitive in searching a good job or even maintaining of the current position, workers should consider learning a second or even a third language. Along with learning a foreign language, people are learning some aspects of the culture of the countries, where this language is spoken. This is a good opportunity to break the possible cultural gap as well. Those, who learn foreign languages, are able to develop better global understanding of the whole world; they learn about the differences between various cultures of the world. It contributes to their mental, social, intellectual development, widening of their world view, better professional perspectives and personal development.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with your argument that learning a foreign language brings many advantages. I am also learning foreign languages such as English, French both in my school time and university. This brings me an interesting experience and learning a language will be helpful to have a better job. We can distinguish the variations of our culture and other cultures in a clearcut manner. Also this creates a link for communication between various groups. In a real sense of the word, learning a foreign language creates many opportunities and beneficial for both children and adults.
ReplyDeleteYes. The more you get exposed to the world the more u tend to express yourself and that automatically opens up new opportunities for you. And further on one prominent advantage of learning foreign languages is that it adds value to your personality too.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with your point mentioned in this post. In today's society people have to be competent in every field if they want to be successful. Among them acquisition of foreign languages takes first place. The reason for it is, as we all know in modern society we have to work with not only with our own nation, but also with other nations, which is an out come of globalization. So, to have a better communication it is must to be aware of foreign languages. Globally valued languages like English, French, German, Japanese, Chinese and so on are important in that sense, but, it is worthy to mention that, the choice of languages may differ according to your preference and the situation. Finally, it is evident that, if we want to be succeed in contemporary society in a globalised world we must pay attention to learn foreign languages whatever your field is.
ReplyDelete