Languages Help You Learn More Languages​​​​

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4. Languages Help You Learn More Languages​​​​

If you've only ever tried to learn one foreign language, you might think that the experience is always the same. For example, you take a class, or pick up a course or app, and work through it. Then you pick up another resource, and another, until you feel confident enough to speak. You speak a little, but not much. The entire process takes years, and is not much fun.

The reality of learning multiple languages is actually very different, and a lot better than that, I can assure you. While your first experience learning a new language can occasionally be slow and frustrating, every language you learn after that will generally be easier, more straightforward, and a lot more fun.

Well, when you learn a language, you are training your brain, just like you would train a muscle. If you want big, strong muscles, you can't just lift one weight one time and be done with it. Instead, you need to lift many weights, many times, over various repetitions.

5. Languages Connect You to New and Fascinating People

Learning languages has helped me make a new acquaintance, or a new friend.

Not by far. Every year, I go to language learning conferences featuring speakers and attendees who speak various languages among them. Every week, I go to social gatherings in Rome that are attended by a wide variety of tourists and expats from all over the world. Every day, I connect with students or readers who write to me in their language (or one I know) in the hopes that I can improve their learning. If I had remained a monolingual Italian, I might never have met any of these people. I might have missed out on friends, colleagues, and even significant others. But, fortunately for me, I didn't stay monolingual. Just like a fisherman can catch more fish with a bigger net, learning more languages has helped me "catch" many, many friends, and those relationships have helped change my life for the better.

If you learn even one language, you can do the same. I'm sure of it!

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