Reasons To Learn Foreign Languages
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Career advancement/ higher pay/ better positions/ little or no competition.
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Personal self confidence and enrichment. Builds a sense of pride and empowerment.
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Be part of the new global civilization.
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Be a better representative of America. Other cultures learn our language, we should do the same / new thinking.
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Forward thinking parents are pursuing foreign languages for their children. Today, our children are part of this small group in this country. We consider this a "gift" to our kids for their future, as I considered my parents game me this gift of language.
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Widely accepted fact that children who are bilingual or mulitlingual have greater brain cognition. This has been demonstrated in many test groups with drastically better scores on Standardized tests in Elementary Grades through to College tests such as SAT and ACT.
Salve! I totally agree with you. Speaking a foreign is a weapon. I'm always charmed by a person who can speak in a foreign tongue.
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Learning a foreign language teaches you a lot about the mechanics of your mother language too.
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A****** Blogger, thanks so much for this info.
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I actually learnt so much more about English while learning Japanese - it's quite an insight when you're forced to learn a new language.
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