Alexander
1. Get To Know Other Cultures
Language is intrinsically connected with the culture it belongs to. So it’s inevitable that with learning a foreign language comes immense knowledge and understanding of the lives and customs of the people who speak that specific language.
Now, you may ask me, why should you learn a foreign language to understand their culture when you could Google it?
The difference between reading a Google page about a specific culture and learning it through their language would be the absence of emotion! How long are you going to remember the information you read on Google? Days? Weeks? Months? But when you are learning a language, you are not deliberately learning about the culture. Instead, you naturally internalize the culture, which is inseparable from a language, as I said in the beginning.
2. Improve Your Brain Functions
Learning a new language is scientifically proven to increase brain function, which is excellent!
Imagine all the brain cells you will gain from learning a language!
The consequences of learning and speaking languages have been studied extensively. People who speak two or more languages have considerably improved general cognitive capacities compared to those who only speak one. They are said to have more memory, concentration, and attention span, they are more creative and have better planning and organizational skills, and a lot more. All of these reasons make language learning a super-intelligent and efficient hobby!
3. Advance Your Career
Language skills can be a significant advantage in today’s competitive global market. The world is full of intelligent people, so what makes you different from your monolingual peers? Of course! It knows one or more foreign languages.
Employers always seek professionals who can communicate seamlessly with customers in new and expanding overseas markets. And multilingual people are proven to have more career chances.
So, what are you waiting for?
4. Make Friends Online!
There are tons of online language learning communities across all major social media. Study grams on Instagram, language exchange groups on Facebook, and live translators on Twitter.
These platforms help you make friends, but they keep you motivated with lessons in fascinating formats and aesthetically pleasing feed. You also get to share your language learning experiences. From my own experience, these communities accelerate your language learning through several online activities, games, and language challenges. It’s super fun and informative. What more can you ask for?
5. Know More About Yourself
This is me talking from the experience of learning multiple foreign languages. Language learning comes with an ability to understand and empathize with others and their culture. Not only does it help us know more about our own culture, but it also ingrains in us multiple perspectives. A language opens a door in our mind through which we experience the emotions, thoughts, and approaches of people from different parts of the world. It enables you to explore your ideas and worldviews. It truly brings out features of you; you never knew existed before. I think it’s incredible how we also get to find ourselves through learning a new language.
