18 Reasons Why You Should Learn a New Language

18 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD LEARN A NEWLANGUAGE "The limits of my language are the limits of my world' Ludwig Wittgenstein a PROFESSIONAL REASONS: E 1. IT CAN GET YOU A BETTER JOB Be more marketable than your monolingual Counterpart and impress HR managers. 2. EXPAND YOUR NETWORK Get more opportunities to meet interesting people and put yourself forward. 3. BOOST YOUR CAREER Communicate with more people across your company. Expand products to untapped markets. 4. ELABORATE YOUR RESEARCH Come up with more valuable work by duplicating all your search queries in the other language yoU know. 5. DEVELOP YOUR PERSONAL BRAND Increase your audience, your social authority and your network. PERSONAL REASONS A INVEST IN YOURSELF Improve your selt It will make you feel special and confidence different. 10. Challenge yourself 7. Expand your It will mathematically dating opportunities find your soul mate. It is a real challenge! increase the odds you will People who master many The more you know, the easiest it will be to learn another language. 9. Next language easier to learn 8. Impress people languages tend to impress in around you some situations. a SCIENTIFIC REASONS s 11. IT WILL MAKE YOU SMARTER 12. IT WILL IMPROVE YOUR DECISION MAKING 13. IT MIGHT MAKE YOU LIVE LONGER "It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language" "It helps eliminate our tendency toward loss aversion" 2 "Bilingualism delays age at onset of dementia, independent of education and immigration status" CULTURAL REASONS PHILIPPINES JAPAN SOUTH AFRICA GERMANY SPAIN FRANCE US BRAZIL AUSTRALIA CHINA INDIA SAUDI ARABIA ITALY UK CANADA MEXICO ARGENTINA 14. OPEN YOUR MIND AND CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING 15. TRANSFORM YOUR TRAVEL EXPERIENCE Be more knowledgeable and cultured. Learn directly from native speakers. Avoid the classical "tourist" path. Spend time talking with people living a totally different life than you do. 16. FOOD. WHAT ELSE ? 17. RELOCATE OVERSEAS Cook amazing meals following authentic recipes and learning from local "chef". Ease the process and you might actually end up doing it! 18. GREAT PEOPLE SAID IT * "One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every doors along the way." Franck Smith "A different language is a different vision of life." Federico Fellini "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart" Nelson Mandela FOR MORE INFO, VISIT: www.gospeaky.com/blog Sources 1. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-benefits-of-bilingualism.html 2. http://www.businessinsider.com/bilingual-people-make-better-financial-choices-2012-4 3.http://www.neurology.org/content/eariy/2013/11/06/01.wnl.0000436620.33155.a4 3. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationopinion/10126883/Why-learn-a-foreign- language-Benefits-of-bilingualism.html http://www.lingholic.com/ten-amazing-reasons-learn-foreign-language/ http://linguagreca.com/blog/2014/02/10-reasons-to-learn-ă-second-language/ http://www.bloomsbury-international.com/blog/2013/08/23/10-reasons-to-leam-a-foreign- language/ http://www.vistawide.com/languages/why_languages.htm http://www.omniglot.com/language/why.htm Ospeaky Piktochart i make information beautiful