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The Benefits of Learning a Second Language

Convenience When Traveling

¨If you have a more advanced knowledge of the language, you can have real conversations with the people you meet, which can be very interesting and will add a new dimension to your holiday.¨

Alzheimer

- The traveler can navigate without the help of a friend or translator

- Can develop new friendships.

-An average of 1,252 people per day are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.

- Bilingual people retain normal mental ability for much longer. but, Monolingual people begin suffering the effects much sooner

- Learning a new language helps because it creates new neural pathways.

On the other hand...

"I speak English, so I don't have to learn a foreign language...."

¨Only 5.6 % of the world's total population speaks English as a primary language. That number doubles when people who speak English as a second or third language are counted. By conservative estimates, that means that well over four-fifths of the world's population does not speak English.¨

Study a Foreign Language: Benefits

  • Having a great résumé.
  • Convenience when traveling.
  • Having a secret code among friends.
  • Preventing Alzheimer’s.

Secret Code

An Outstanding Résumé

- You can converse without others knowing what you are saying

- Talk About private matters or making important decisions when you are in public

  • Can influence a college’s or company’s decision about accepting or hiring a person
  • Be able to communicate with the customer
  • Applicant would be able to communicate with people from the company to solve problems.

¨Speakers of such Native American languages as Navajo, Choctaw and Cheyenne served as radio operators, know as Code Talkers, to keep communications secret during both World Wars.¨

Araceli Alonso

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