Over the years, most people have just being familiar with just English or probably their mother tongue and this as sometimes given issues to some especially in some specific areas, maybe trying to seek a job opportunity or others.. we must sure know that in addition to English, every student and everyone individual should study or keep up at least one other language. As a result, language instruction ought to be a key component of every curriculum and should be enforced to learn because if you go to other countries where they do not speak English, you will be compelled to study their language of you want to survive that country.
Over the years, while growing, I have so much affinity to learn different languages even my mother tongue, I haven't been so used to it but I still make it a compulsory thing to learn other languages.. Amongst all these languages, aside my mother tongue, I want to learn to speak Spanish because I feel Spanish has most dominated the world after the English speaking countries.
There are some different advantages of learning a second language include improved academic performance, improved cognitive growth, and improved attitudes toward other languages and cultures. Simply said, language acquisition is essential for pupils to succeed in the contemporary, global economy because you go out to meet different kind of people everytime and you won't want to get stucked up in just one language...
I once had this experience when I was travelling some years back. I was in a bus with some ladies, but to them, they believed no one else could ever understand what they were saying. So they were all talking, both the good words and the bad, I was able to hear everything because I have trained myself that way and it took some time for them to know that I actually understood what they were saying...
What are the benefits of learning a new language??
Some benefits of learning a new language are listed below;
- It Improved Problem-Solving Capabilities
- It will give you a better verbal and spatial skills
- It will bring you an enhanced Memory Performance
- lt enhances the Ability to Think Creatively
- lt give an Improved memory
- It allows greater Flexibility and Creativity.
With these, I believe you will know that it is very crucial to be very versatile in speaking or learning languages and not focusing on just one language which you know...