Description: In this article, qualified languages teacher Sarah, shares with us how learning different languages can offer valuable advantages, broaden horizons and more career choices.
In our ever-globalising world, learning a second language has never been so beneficial!
Knowing another language can bring some significant advantages to your life.
Let’s take a look at the top three:
- Languages can help you in your career
- Languages help memory and brain functions
- Learning languages help you to understand more about your own native language
It is no secret that knowing a second language can present you with a number of attractive career choices.
Given that the world is more interconnected nowadays, more and more jobs are being advertised for those who can speak multiple languages.
Not to mention, the chances of being able to travel or live abroad with your work, increase significantly.
Besides language learning advancing your career and landing you a good job, languages offer you great insight into other cultures and traditions.
This insight allows you to gain great confidence in travelling abroad and staying in new places.
You learn to embrace culture and other people’s ways of living.
There are also health benefits to learning a language.
Learning new skills is great for your brain functions.
You train your brain to learn and understand new grammar structures and rules, make connections and contextualise the language in different situations.
Gaining knowledge of the rules of a new language also increases your understanding of your native language.
Have you ever wondered why you say things, the way you do?
Well, learning another language could give you the answer!
Getting a head start with language learning from an early age is a great idea.
Our world moves fast and we have to keep up with its changes whether that’s developing our skills, learning more about ourselves, and also, or learning a new language.
How to start learning a new language in three easy steps:
- Connect with language resources. There are plenty of online language learning tools out there including DuoLingo and Memrise as well as language books, which are a great way to start with the basics.
- Set realistic goals. Take the pressure off yourself to learn massive chunks of language in a small amount of time. Set aside 10-15 minutes a day to learn vocabulary and key verbs.
- Explore media channels in your new language. Platforms such as Netflix and Spotify have a great number of programmes, films and songs in many popular languages and is a great way to mix language learning with enjoyment. At the end of the day, learning languages has to be fun!
By tutor, Sarah