1-To be able to speak a language where no one else can tell what your saying.
2-To be able to read books in other languages
3-to be able to understand films in other languages
4-To increase your chance of getting a job
5-to charm people
6-to show intellectuality
7-if you wanted to start a new secret club of friends and wanted you all to speak a different language from everybody else
8-If your partner speaks a different language
9-To show people that when you put your head to something you can acheive
10-so that you could communicate when doing buisness with foreign workers
11-To show stamina
12-So that you could order food easily when you go on holiday
13-so that if work needed to move you from countries you would be able to know the language
14-so that you could find food in a supermarket abroad
15-so that you could help if someone from school only spoke one language
16-so that you could communicate with the staff at clothes shops
17-To prove to your self you can do things
18-for cheesy chat up lines
19-To impress your family
20-to inprove your knowledge of the country
21-to enable you to travel
22-To surprise your friends and family
23-to show that your not lazy when you go to different countries
24-If you need a hobby
25-to show that your smart
26-to get better service in restaurants
27-to be ahead of all your language class
28-If you want something to put on your CV
29-If you want to do something new
29 reasons to learn a new language!
Filed under Feb 29th Blogs
Loving your list of reasons to learn languages. As a language teacher, it’s great to see that young people see so many reasons to learn languages. If you don’t mind, I’ll post it on my blog too?
Thanks
Lisibo x
Wow! That list sure is inspiring! Here in Switzerland, it’s very natural to learn several languages: We are such a small country, but have 4 official languages. So if you want to understand at least half the population, you already need 2 languages. It never occurred to me that this was special – until I went to Scotland to work as an assistant teacher for german language. When I switched between english, german and french (with the French assistant teacher), the kids looked at me as if I had suddenly grown another head! On the other hand, when I wanted to make them talk in german, they would often answer: I don’t need that! Everywhere I travel, they will speak english … They were right, then … These days, maybe you would have to add Chinese
Pingback: Feb29th.net – Reasons to learn a language « ¡Vámonos!
Hello!
I didn’t know about Feb29th. I’ll try to post something next year!
I’s been nice to realize that 148 different flags have been collected. I love international meetings. This was a big one!
As for this post I concur it’s simply delicious. 29 reasons are a lot of reasons!
I like the number 6. I put it into practice some times. But just some times!
I would add to the 8 and the 18 the following: “to impress the opposite sex”. Or probably I would just add it to the 19.xd
Another one, a bit more scientist than the others: “to become smarter” (also related to 25). Some people really think you get smarter when you learn a second language (if you are an adult. Well, for sure it also works whith over 5;d).
I am not sure about that one, but probably you get sharper, a bit sharper. XD
Thanks a lot.
Greetings from Spain