my first experience of language learning was when i was six years old
i started to play the piano and i eventually found a way to express myself with music if i was sad i
could play an extremely depressing chopin nocturne and if i was happy i could whip out some mozart
the thing is humans have a need to express themselves
we have a need to listen and to be heard and this is truly impossible without languages
something that doesn't occur to monolinguals that is someone who only speaks one language is
that we express things in a completely different manner depending in which language we are speaking
a
stay tuned for that because that's gonna be a good video that's five languages guys
all at completely different levels so i don't think it's wrong for me to say
that i'm allowed to talk about language learning i think i'm qualified now before
i make my points and why everyone needs to try to learn a new language even just a little bit
i just want to say by learning a language i did not mean high school language learning
plus
god no i feel like high school and the education system in general
demonizes language learning we make it feel like it's all boring grammar
when i say language learning i mean the fun way the way where you throw yourself into a
conversation at the language exchange even though you feel a little uncomfortable and you come out
of it and you think my brain was in spanish i wasn't translating anywhere i was speaking spanish
or maybe you finally learn how german sentence structure is and you realize you can do it or
you can go to france for a couple weeks and you can order at a restaurant for your whole
family isn't that impressive speaking of language learning i hope i can convince
you guys to learn a language and i'm going to quickly tell you how i've been learning
german because i'm taking a 30-day german microphone sprint with lingoda and it has been
incredible it has been so fun i think i forgot how much joy you can get for learning languages
now february is the month of love the month of amu of amor amore and this is a great opportunity to
learn how to tell the people you love in your life i love you in different languages
and so on and have some fun with it as a language student myself i can vouch for how lingoda's
method is so genius it has the benefits of taking intimate nine classes with a native speaker but
without the struggle of trying to find a timetable that suits you because lingona is 24 hours so
they really work around your schedule and they're so flexible i've done classes at 7am i've done
classes at 10 pm and i just have a look at my schedule and see what works for me and when i
think the class is going to be best and i look at what kind of learning goal i want to achieve that
day and i show up it's as easy as that another reason that i'm a big fan of lingoda is each
class you take has like a learning goal and for example next week i'm going to be learning how to
order a coffee in german which this is useful stuff this is the stuff that i want to learn
i know we need to learn a bit of the grammar and that but i want to know how
to introduce myself how to tell people where i work for my first german class
i felt like i could have a good minute of chatting in german and i could follow the conversation
which is so quick because they really push you so if during this video i convince you to learn
languages you can use my link below to get 30 off your first month and also a free seven-day
trial so you can try it out so i really recommend you check out the free trial and
learn something new in a new language and see how it feels maybe you'll find a new passion for it
okay i've categorized this into four different sections to give my proof as to why i believe
that learning languages gives you the advantage in life i don't really like using statistics in
this i would rather give a point of view because we all know that statistics end up being outdated
after a while and a lot of them are false and some of them are just made up completely so
i'm gonna be giving it in the basis of my knowledge i'm gonna try to avoid statistics
the first one is the work advantage now it's no secret that having a second or even third language
on your cv can be super beneficial it's actually one of the things that employers look for most of
after computer science areas like coding and data analysis now if i'm to try and theorize why having
foreign languages on your cv are so beneficial i would say that now in 2022 so many companies are
international and they're not based in the one city anymore where one language is only needed
we have people from all over the world working for companies we have different offices depending on
the city and so if you have a new cv the this fact that yeah i can communicate with people from the
other offices or i could perhaps help with the translation aspect we want more of that in the
world especially in the english-speaking world where having second languages aren't that common
now another one is work opportunities let's look at a map right now this is the map of official
english-speaking countries so imagine you only speak english in this example look at where your
work opportunities lie you know you've got a good chance and i guess so many other countries in the
world are cool when english is your only other language but what if you added spanish to it now
look at all the work opportunities you have all the countries that you could live in now is it any
surprise as to why language learning is so vital not only do you have the advantage of having more
opportunities at work but you have the advantage that you can live abroad with your job now with a
social advantage these are all the cheesy ones but the ones that i do think are really important when
you open up to another language you're opening up to all these potential friends that you have
i've been very lucky that because of my language learning abilities i have made many friends and
by going to language exchanges and meeting people say at erasmus parties i've been able
to meet people that i wouldn't have otherwise now another one is when we look at the travel aspect
travel is so much more enjoyable when you're in a country where you speak the language and of course
we can't learn the language every time we travel but if there's a country that you're particularly
interested in being able to get by in the language will help you immensely when i first arrived in
france and i was too nervous to even order a coffee i started to get down about it and after
six months of living in the city i realized okay i can know this i can talk to the baristas as i
make my coffee i get asked for oat milk without trying to look on google translate how they say
it in french or how they say it in german and if you've ever done a train travel like me with
internal being able to understand the language at the train stations was vital when you have quick
training connections i know that's a bit niche but there's plenty more examples like that i also
believe that with the social aspect of learning a language you can finally see things in different
points of view you know maybe you have a friend whose native language is completely different from
you and you don't understand why they always make this grammatical mistake or why they're very blunt
or why they're why they swear so much and a lot of it can be down to just the language that they
grew up in and that's why they're that way and i think it's something that more people should
look into and i think this is a really good bridge into the cultural advantage of learning a language
we all hate the news everyone knows that the news is the worst
and one reason for that is because of stereotype when we don't understand a country because it's
different to our own a lot of us form stereotypes and a lot of stereotypes have just come through
generations and generations and when you get to know a language and therefore get to know the
culture of another place we can help to reduce stereotypes in the world we can understand that
the way things are across the world most likely have a historical reason actually i have this
story when i was traveling and i was in vienna this girl um came up it was a sunday and if you
have ever been to europe you know that on sunday most things are closed and this girl came up to
the reception and said why are you guys too lazy to work a sunday and the receptionist was just
sick at this girl who just didn't understand the culture behind sundays in europe and how
originally it came from a religious background but now it's more about spending time with your family
and having a day of rest as they call it in her head she only saw it as people being lazy and
that's just a pure example of how the lack of understanding we have of the world can make us
a bit rude another great cultural advantage is when you learn a language you end up learning
the culture and the history that comes with it for example we cannot learn a language without having
cultural awareness we can't learn a language without understanding the history because a lot of
idioms and expressions and the way that we discuss in certain languages have historical backgrounds
in them and it's probably one of my favorite parts about speaking a different language speaking of
the way that we express things something that i find beautiful that i learned was that if i were
to say in english i broke my arm as you can say i've already blamed myself i broke it myself or
maybe if you're in a really unfortunate situation someone broke my arm this guy on the street broke
my arm which i hope isn't the case well in spanish they have a different expression for that and it's
which means it got broken it's been broken i'm not blaming anyone i'm just saying my
arm is now broken as much as it's a little subtlety in the language i find it beautiful
now the last advantage is i'm gonna call it the brain advantage and that's because there are so
many neurological benefits of speaking a second or third language the first thing is that people have
found that when we learn a second language we're better making decisions in the second language
because we aren't as emotionally connected to this language which is so true when i think about how
when i'm speaking french i'm way more direct and the answer is way more simple
compared to when i'm in english which is i guess a very rambly language and i guess as a native
i become very rambly i find it hard to make a decision and so learning a second language can
help you if you're decision making another important one is problem solving apparently
and i'm not going to add a statistic those who learn second languages or third languages become
better at problem solving and i guess for them to theorize why we look at how
in different languages we have to structure our sentences in different ways and we have to speak
in different manners and i believe that this helps that part of your brain that's problem-solving the
last brain function the reason why having a second language can give you the advantage
is memory improvement firmware languages have an improved memory function and i know that when i'm
80 i want to know that i've done everything i can to not forget absolutely everything that's
going on in my brain so i'm glad that i speak more than one language no one was originally
conceptualizing this video my idea was say why we should learn languages but i ended up just
finding so many advantages of learning languages that i felt this title was better and a lot of
people when they think about language learning they find it to be something that's pointless or
it's just a hobby whereas i see that by learning a language you really do have an advantage that
others don't so thank you for watching this video and thanks again to lingoda remember you can use
my link to get a free week and 30 off your first month if you enjoyed this video here are two more
and if you want to watch them that's okay i hope you have a lovely week and bye bye you