Benefits of Learning a New Language
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LingQ 20th Sep 11 9:38 pm
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Learning new language is always beneficial for one. The direct benefit of getting to know new language is making people impressed to the person thus increasing the person’s self-esteem. Knowing another language is often linked to people’s intelligence.
Knowing another language also helps to expand the person’s network around the world because interaction and understanding are easy to build upon the same language even though both parties are strangers to each other.
Language skill is also proven to increase people’s work competency. It helps people to get much greater opportunity to get job. Today, the business context has expanded to international market and it is necessary for businesses to cater international customers’ demands. Thus, people who are multilingual needed to support day-to-day operation.
In the travelling perspective, it’s easier for those who know multiple languages to move to another country either for pleasure, education or work purpose. By knowing the language of the foreign country it saves them from hassle from translating and understanding the information. When you learn the language, you also learn the culture indirectly hence widen your knowledge about other cultures.
Many researchers say that human’s brain is just like muscle. It requires exercise to keep it functioning properly. And learning new language is one of the exercises recommended to boost the brain. Learning new language helps stimulate the area in the brain that process information. It is also believed to give impact on creativity, interpersonal and communication skills, and age-related mental problems.
