Study Languages

17-09-2007

 Why learn languages

If you want to broader your horizon and dream to travel soon to the place you like you can study languages in foreign countries. This makes sense for your plan to travel places. Studying language is also fun and exciting if you love adventure travel, much more, if learning many languages will be among your dream career in the future.

Many people who have learned many languages because they travel frequently to many places of the world have said that the activity like learning French, Mandarin, Filipino or any other language is worth the experience of a lifetime. Through the travel they made they do not only discover traditional dishes, taste the best fruits but learn to speak the native language of many countries of the world.

Here are basic reasons why studying languages is more exciting if you’d love it to be your next career in the next few months.

  • It’s fun to speak languages – It’s really a lot of fun if you can speak many languages. You will be amazing many people around you. The people in the country you are in will be astounded if they saw a foreigner speaking to their own language.
  • It could be a career for you – Many people now are making a career out of the different languages they can speak and the pay is really good. If you are not fully aware of this kind of career but starting to like it, you can browse many available websites of this kind and you will be guided properly to the information available. In fact, this kind of a career can be studied now online and not just in many traditional schools all over the globe. There are also lots of big corporations wanting to hire many language graduates that would help enhance their business in many countries. They believe that employing people with the capacity to speak many languages especially in countries they are operating business, could help very well for the operation of their company. Since the career is not quiet impressive for many people in third world countries, the hiring of this kind of professionals in rare in developing countries of the world.
  • You can have many foreigner friends – Among the advantages of speaking various languages is having many friends in foreign countries. For instance, if you travel in Japan and you know how to speak their language you can easily win the hearts of many Japanese. They will be astounded looking at other people from other countries speaking to their language.
  • You have the edge – Since only few individuals are given the privilege of speaking many languages this would mean that you have great advantage than those who only know their own language.
  • Travel experience – If you make this a career in the future you can avail of many travel experiences from the company you are in. Since many corporate companies have branches in many parts of the world, you have great chances of traveling with your bosses to act as language interpreter to bridge the gap in many business transactions.

11-09-2007

 Defining What a Language Is

LANGUAGE is simply a group of symbols used by a particular race to communicate themselves both verbally and in written form. There are lots of races in the world and obviously, there are also lots of languages existing. And more so, in each race, there is a sub-race which speaks a different tongue and the tongue can now be called a dialect.

In the modern world of global communication, English is not just the dominating language because most of the world’s Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in the United States and the United Kingdom (which both use English) but simply because two of the world’s powerful countries speak English. Even the United Nations, the world’s governing body or most of it anyway, which uses six official languages – English, Arabic, French, Russian, Chinese and Spanish – cannot stop English is the world’s most dominating medium. But English is not the world’s most used language though. It only ranks third to Chinese which is used by more than 900 million folks and ranks second to Spanish which is used by more than 300 million people. Still, English is used as the official medium in aviation so I may as well stop whining and arguing. Hence, Chinese pilots flying international flights need to learn to be fluent in English.

But since this article is geared towards persons speaking English as their first language, we may as well introduce the various languages one needs to acquire as a secondary language. After all, learning a second language is admittedly fun. After all, one can beam with some pride if he or she knows a second language fluently by heart. He or she can communicate with people of other races if one acquires a second language. Besides, acquiring a second language may come in handy if someone needs to communicate with a person speaking it as his or her native tongue but who cannot communicate in English. Another reason why people study a foreign language is because they are forced by their employers to do so. Now, that’s as blunt as it can be but the benefits of acquiring a second language can obviously outdo the hassles which actually are nil if one looks at its positive side. These persons are actually destined for foreign posting and who doesn’t need a promotion anyway? So these people usually pack their bags, bid their spouses and children goodbye for six months and head to the country where the language to be acquired is learned. Some of the not-so-affluent companies though would rather enroll their employees in online schools.

Foreign physical language schools and online schools have distinctive advantages when it comes to second language acquisition. In the former, the language educational institution immerses the student to a native family of that country where he or she gets supplemental language tutorials from the host family. In return, the student also shares his or her native language to the host family who are also eager to learn it as a second language by itself.


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