How many foreign languages do you speak? Are they romance, germanic, slavic, or are they from the Arab world? Or perhaps you speak African tongues? Or Chinese? Or even more? What is the value of learning languages? What do you gain from it?
What we do when we learn a new language is open ourselves to more people. It offers us access to even more languages, culture, food, people, and religions. It makes us an open canvas for more experiences. It can be a good thing, but it can also be a negative thing. One thing is for certain: learning languages is worthwhile for people who want to meet more people.
If you want to gain access to more people and the world, really learn a language. Learn about the culture surrounding the language, the people, the traditions, and the country. It helps to know these things when you learn a language in order to be truly successful in it. If you learn these things, then you know more about yourself as well. If you don’t, then you are not fully appreciating the language. It helps to surround yourself with supportive people in order to fully learn the language, not only for practicing, but for knowing how to react to different situations as they arise. You learn about good customs from the people who are native speakers of the language!
Learning a new language is a skill that some people find difficult. It often depends on your early exposure to learning a new language. Take advantage of learning as many languages as possible in order to be a member of an increasingly globalized world. And never forget that love is the universal language.
A Life of Oblivion 