Learning Foreign Languages
Uploaded by SanBay on Mar 13, 2012
Introduction
Learning foreign languages is essential today. Here learning means gaining knowledge, skills from experience or studying. There are lots of languages in the world. Every language reflects its community, country and continent importance in its own places. There are some foreign languages commonly used all over the world i.e., English, Spanish, Russian, French, etc. Knowing one thing only is not enough in this competitive and business environment world, there is need of expose of multi-talent qualifications in every person with sound and different known languages. Knowledge of foreign languages helps to make a good communication and relation among the people of different nations.
Background
From early 100 years to this modern, most common and widely used language is English. It is difficult to know exactly how many different unique languages are in the world. Most experts agree that the number is probably between 4000 to 4500. With gradual development of varieties of languages in the world, people of different nations eagerly to learn new foreign languages, the reasons behind it, are many. Today’s survey data shows that there are top 10 international foreign languages mostly spoken in different nations. They are: English, Spanish, Mandarin, Hindi-Urdu, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese and German.
There are various causes for gradual development of foreign languages. This is because of population growth, migration, communication process, developments, academic courses, geographical conditions, etc. In every field of requirement, English languages play a vital role in the communication process or means for the people of different nations. For the stability of peace and support among the countries today has been possible only because of knowledge of varieties of languages among the people.
Argument
Nowadays more and more people around the world are keen to learn foreign languages. A person who speaks only one language has a slim chance for success in this 21st century job market. Though English languages are highly spoken in the world, it is not enough in current situation. Today languages like Chinese, Russian, etc are also widely spoken than English. Here population plays a vital role factor for development of Chinese language. This shows that there is need of knowledge of other languages also.
When we learn foreign languages, we are exposed to new things. We also learn their foreign culture and the way the people live and the food they eat. In Nepal context, many Neplese are trying abroad for job or higher studies. For this, they learn...