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Disadvantages of learning a foreign language

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Disadvantages of learning a foreign language

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Difficulty- different alphabets and pronunciations

A person can drift from his/her native language(s)

A child can be confused about his/her cultural identity depending on where your ward is being raised

Additional work for students

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What motivates people to learn foreign languages?

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What motivates people to learn foreign languages?

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The desire to communicate more effectively with people around

To show respect to a particular society and/or person

Higher level achievement in examinations

Curiosity

History behind certain languages

3 mindsets to motivate individuals to not give up learning foreign languages:
i) “Mistakes get me closer to the promised land.”
ii) “Man, this is fun!”
iii) “Every day is training day.”-https://www.fluentu.com/blog/motivation-to-learn-a-language/

Ways to self-motivation in order to learn a new language: http://eurolinguiste.com/language-learning-motivation/

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The secrets of learning a new language | Lýdia Machová | TED

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Travel- helps to break any barriers while asking for some kind of favour. Eg, asking for directions

Work and Business- assists you in making stronger international contacts.

Music, films, arts and culture

For your own desire and/or satisfaction

Citizenship of a certain country

Increases your brain capacity and you have better memory

Improvement of analytical skills

Leads to a more tolerant and flexible human being

Deepens the understanding and connection of a person about a culture

Emigration

Helps us to choose our words wisely i.e. being mindful of other people around us

Educative and/or academic purposes

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1. Around 50% of the words present in English are from French

2. Greek and traditional Chinese are the oldest written languages still in use.

3. People that speak in sign languages also have an accent

4. 80% of Africans today have no written form.

5. Cambodian (Khmer) is the longest alphabet in the world- 74. It contains 33 consonants

6. Only 5% of Portuguese speakers reside in Portugal. The majority of Portuguese speakers live in Brazil.

7. Silbo Gomero- a language in Spain that’s made entirely of whistling.

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1. There are around 7,000 languages and dialects in the world

2. Chinese is the most spoken language in the world with 1.2 billion speakers - 1 billion of whom speak Mandarin

3. There are over 200 fake languages, which have been created for various films such as the 12 invented for Lord of the Rings of Klingon for Star Trek.

4. In German, Rice Krispies go 'Knisper! Knasper! Knusper!

5. The most widely translated books after the Bible are The Little Prince and Pinocchio.

6. Khmer (spoken in Cambodia) has the largest alphabet with 74 letters in it.

7. The word 'buffalo' can refer to the animal, a city in New York and mean 'to bully'. Therefore, the following sentence is grammatically correct: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

8. The first printed book was the Gutenberg Bible, written in German.

9. The most linguistically diverse country in the world is Papua New Guinea, where around 840 languages are spoken.

10. Around 50% of English words come from French.

11. Greek and Traditional Chinese are the oldest written languages still in use today.

12. People using sign language also have accents.

13. Only 5% of all Portuguese speakers live in Portugal - the majority live in Brazil.

14. If you need to get cash out in the Vatican, you can use the cash machine in Latin.

15. German is the most spoken mother tongue in Europe.

16. Twitter's top 3 languages are English, Spanish and Japanese.

17. In Spain, there's a language made up entirely of whistling called Silbo Gomero.

18. There are now more Spanish speakers in the US than there are people in Spain.

19. Over half the population is bilingual.

20. There are 13 ways to spell the "o" sound in French.

21. Rotokas (spoken in Papua New Guinea) has the shortest alphabet (12 letters).

22. There are 46 different alphabets used in the world.

23. 80% of African languages have no written form.

24. The Pope tweets in 9 languages.

25. Welsh is also spoken in the Patagonia region of Argentina.

26. Did you know that in Chinese dogs go 'wang wang', in Spanish they go 'guau guau' and in Swedish they go 'voff voff'.

27. There are 50,000 characters in the Chinese language, but you only need to know 2,000 of them to read a newspaper.

28. It is a requirement for astronauts to have a working knowledge of Russian.

29. In Somali, there are 43 words relating to camels.

30. In Sinhalese, the word ayubowan means good morning, good afternoon, good evening, goodnight and goodbye.

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1. There are around 7,000 languages and dialects in the world 2. Chinese is the most spoken language in the world with 1.2 billion speakers - 1 billion of whom speak Mandarin 3. There are over 200 fake languages, which have been created for various films such as the 12 invented for Lord of the Rings of Klingon for Star Trek.

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How do languages affect the way we think?

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How do languages affect the way we think?

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Yes,languages do affect the way we think.If you show a person speaking English a photo of a person breaking a vase by accident he/she will say “He broke the vase by accident” while a Spanish speaker might say “The vase broke by accident”.So this means that the English speaker will remember who did it while the Spanish speaker will remember that it was an accident.And there are also some languages which do not even have numbers making it difficult for native speakers to count.And there is a community in Australia which has a language completely based on directions.If you want to say “hello”,you’ll have to say “Which way are you going?” you’ll have to tell them the direction and ask them where are they going.But in that same community,people do not say left,right they say east,north,south and west.A surprising fact is we losing on average one language per week.

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There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world -- and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language -- from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian -- that suggest the answer is a resounding yes. “The beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and how flexible the human mind is,” Boroditsky says. “Human minds have invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000.”

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What motivates people to learn a new language

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What motivates people to learn a new language

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People need and want to learn new languages because learning new languages can have you more friends and job offers.Learning new languages can also help you while traveling if you encounter someone who does not speak English.

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4 reasons to learn a new language | John McWhorter