Essay About Learning Language

How many languages can you speak? Learning a new language is the goal of many people, especially in a society where communication is necessary in order to ‘’survive’’. This is why nowadays more than half, approximately 55%, of the world is at least bilingual. But why should we insist on being able to speak and learn many languages? Well, learning many languages has a huge importance in people’s lives. It is the way we can obtain a wider range of communication, it gives us more opportunities for an international career as well as making us understand and respect other ideas and cultures.

‘’Right side, and, uh, with intensity. Okay?’’, ‘’Is that everything? I mean, it seemed like he said quite a bit more than that.’’ is a part of a dialogue between Bill Murray in the role of Bob Harris and his English, Japanese translator, while Bob Harris is trying to cooperate with his Japanese colleagues, in the movie, directed by Sofia Coppola, ‘’Lost in

‘’We can benefit from others' ideas. We can build on their wisdom. And as a result, our ideas do accumulate, and our technology progresses…Once we have language, we can put our ideas together and cooperate to have a prosperity that we couldn't have before we acquired it’’ is what the evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel says in his speech ‘’How language transformed humanity’’. Significantly, Mark Pagel omits to tell us that by knowing somebody’s language we cannot only communicate with him or her, but also act reciprocally with them by changing ideas, experiences and knowledge. However, the benefits of interacting don’t only halt there, as by sharing ideas and comparing cultures, we additionally understand our own origins and identity. Consequently, we start respecting the ‘’different’’ and fearless, contribute in our own way for a new, better and more promising