Why Study a Language?

Here are 10 reasons:

1. It can expand your view of the world.
2. It encourages critical reflection on the relationship between language and culture.
3. It allows you to communicate with people from other communities and cultures.
4. It can increase cultural awareness.
5. It builds practical skills for travel and business.
6. It can help you to understand your own language through comparison and contrast with the foreign language.
7. It gives you access to texts in other languages.
8. It gives you a sense of relevant past, both cultural and linguistic.
9. It expands opportunities for meaningful leisure activity (travel, reading, movies).
10. It contributes to achievement of national goals, such as economic development or national security.