5 Reasons to Learn a Second Language

A few of my reasons why I think you should learn a foreign language!

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[Saad-mlvd]

iam studying english now

recently i think that i found my hobby which is learning languages

after finishing english i will probably learn Japanese :)

[koma_dori]

I learnt Japanese when I lived in Japan for two years, and definitely agree with your comment about learning a foreign language deepening your understanding of your own language: Learning Japanese taught me more about English than either learning English as a child or learning French ever did. And after two years I knew about 300 characters... which put me at the level of a seven year old child.

[religiouslyilliterate]

Awesome video! I speak English and Japanese! Everyone I grew up around was fluent in Spanish so I probably speak more of the language than I give myself credit for, but I do wish I was more proficient in it.

[danpesmed]

Thanks for your video Andrea! I couldn't agree more. I'm a native spanish speaker and the first language I learned was my local sign language. It gave me a completely different culture from the one I was living in. I then learnt English, it took me a long time to learn it, but I didn't know how to learn a language. Now I have a clearer idea of how to learn a new language and I'm son starting learning Greek.

[NocturnalBlaze]

As a languages student (English and Norwegian - also a little Danish and Swedish in comparison) at univeristy, this video speaks to me on so many levels, absolutely agree with everything!!

[adolfoquezada]

Right! I agree with this. Spanish (first language), English (second) and I've been also studying German.

[blognowheregirl]

I agree with everything you said, I'm learning English now, I'm so excited about this that I created my channel where I post vídeos about this subject in English and I'm also working as an au pair here in the United States :) I can't wait to become fluent!!

[Biditchoun]

I am a french and dutch native speaker, picked up english on the internet and learned german at school (then I stayed one year there for a social project), and all I can say is: the more you speak languages, the more you understand how they work and thus fater it becomes to learn new ones. Well, maybe that doesn't apply if I try to learn an african/asian language, but I haven't tried yet.

[saijalovesmusic]

I agree with you completely. I think learning languages is so important! I'm fully fluent in Finnish and English and I've studied French and Swedish for several years. I feel so lucky to have been born in Finland because learning a second language is mandatory here. Most people start learning English either in kindergarten, first grade, or third grade and continue until they graduate from high school. Then on seventh grade we start to learn Swedish which also continues until the end of high school. On top of this, it's also encouraged to study at least German, French or Spanish. So most young Finnish people will end up being able communicate in three different languages, at least to a certain extent.

[solennp]

OK, I completely agree with you on everything you said! Learning foreign languages is really helpful, but most of all it's enriching! I am French and I've been learning English for about 7/8 years now and Spanish for 5 years, and I absolutely LOVE IT. I've had the chance to travel a lot, and thus to speak English and Spanish with natives, and now, I have friends from different countries (Spain, Italy, Ireland, USA, Taiwan...) and that's so cool :) Now, my goal is to improve my English and my Spanish in order to speak them completely fluently, and also to start learning Italian which, I think, is a beautiful language too. I would love that you answer me back in French, or even that you make a video in French when you're ready!! :)

[danielyeshe]

You are absolute right. I'm Welsh but don't speak Welsh. I'm trying to learn it at the moment. I feel a connection to it in a way I can't really explain. It feels like the language I should be speaking - but don't because of a quirk of history. A lot of people I speak to don't seem to understand the idea that learning a language has value for itself rather than just being useful to communicate with more people.

[lallubylal]

I agree. I have the luck to live in Switzerland where we have four different main languages. Plus my mums from Indonesia. So I grew up with german/indonesian, since 4th grade I'm learning French and since 7th English.
I'm kind of able to survive in all 4 languages which super amazing.

[signmeupruss]

Such wonderful inspiration. Thank you.

[datenshi]

I discovered your channel by chance and I like it a lot,
I'm learning English and for the first time I understand everything on a English videos
I think it can help me a lot to improve my English, then continuous like that you assure

[Speedy]

I am learning Brazil Portuguese and you are right. You video is encouraging.

[carlosnavarro]

you look absolutely gorgeous on your video and the topic is so good as well!

[rickchollett]

I've been brushing up on my French. I find it is easier to read it than speak it. I'll be in France in March visiting friends!

[sumsetgirl]

This video helped me to motivate myself to improve more in the languages I'm studying. I really want to improve a lot in vocabulary because I love reading and I want to try reading in English and French, but it seems impossible to me to understand every concept of the book or know what's is happening in some parts. I really want to make an improvement in learning English and French and I know I can do it, It would feel really satisfactory to see all the improvement you have made.

[izu__jp]

I've been learning French since I was 8 years old (I'm 16 now) and I'm really passionate about learning it fluently. I want to take it at college and uni. Even though I been doing French for half my life, I know I would struggle to speak French without a dictionary. It sucks because the system of learning language at high school is so stupid. Its just memorizing passages and learning some vocab. Its not helpful at all.

[KatrinaEames]

Right now I'm working on learning French. I speak german fairly well, and my spanish is passable, but I can't wait to be able to actually use these languages and speak to other people.