Why learn a language?

Why learn a language?

Social & Emotional Health

Self-Growth

Learning a language can help your mental well-being by increasing your self-esteem as you become more certain of your strengths and abilities. These realizations can even open new job or lifestyle opportunities, encouraging your overall development.

Self- Confidence

When learning a new language, you move out of your comfort zone. This allows your brain to become more comfortable with risks and learning.
The ability to communicate with someone else in their first language gives you a sense of accomplishment, which boosts your self-confidence.

Multiple Choice

Learning a language can help your mental well-being by increasing your ___________.

• self-esteem

• knowledge

• blood pressure

• communication

Empathy

People exposed to multiple languages communicate better and understand others' perspectives. They can better understand what the other person is saying based on the tone and use of words in their native language.
Learning more languages also makes you more empathetic towards people struggling with understanding or speaking a different language.

Furthermore, you remove stereotypes and prejudices you’ve adopted from your culture or society and expose new ways of thinking and understanding the world.

Communication

The more languages you know, the more confident you become in your own communication skills.

Multiple Choice

People who speak more than one language can better understand what the other person is saying based on the _________

• language

• tone

• sound

• voice

Mental Health

Stress - Reduction

The latest Harvard research suggests that learning a language is the perfect way to de-stress and unclutter your mind. Our natural psychology begins to reflect on what we know and have learned, helping us develop feelings of competence and self-efficiency. Learning a language connects to an underlying purpose of growth and development, which is crucial for positive mental well-being.

Anxiety Reduction

By practicing your language skills in your language classes, you learn and develop effective social skills. These will help you feel more relaxed around strangers, meet people more naturally, and build confidence, communication, and relationships.

Multiple Choice

The latest Harvard research suggests that learning a language is the perfect way to ______

• discover new areas of growth

• travel

• de-stress

• occupy your mind

anti - alzheimer & Dementia

Bilinguals have increased functional connections in the brain's areas responsible for executive control. When sufferers of Alzheimer’s or dementia begin learning a new language, this can play a crucial role in healing and strengthening their brain capacity, refreshing their memory, information retention, and judgment skills.

Multiple Choice

Studies show that learning a new language can _________

• heal and strengthen your brain capacity

• give you Alzheimer

• increase your blood flow

• clutter your mind

SMARTER !

Research over the years has proven that bi-linguists and multi-linguists have advanced intelligence, allowing them to improve mental attention and alertness on the journey to fluency. People who speak more than one language also have heightened brain functions, such as switching between tasks at work, remembering things, and concentrating.

Multiple Choice

Research has proven that bi-linguists and multi-linguists have _________.

• advanced technlogy

• a higher maturity level

• a better immune system

• advanced intelligence

c r e a t i v i t y

​Learning a new language opens your mind, not just to the words themselves, but to the emotions and imagery that that language carries.

Academic success

Trilingual > Bilingual > monolingual

Bilingual students demonstrate more mental flexibility, an ability to think more independently of words, superiority in concept formation, and a more diversified intelligence than monolingual children. Additionally, bilinguals can provide a greater number of acceptable, more original, and more elaborate answers to open-ended questions than monolinguals.

Multiple Choice

Bilingual students demonstrate __________,

• ability to make things up

• more mental flexibility

• more cognitive dissonance

• narrower mind

Multiple Choice

Bilingual students demonstrate an ability to think ___________of words.

• more dependently

• more peculiarly

• more independently

• more repugnantly

Improve your English

Some studies have shown that learning a second language makes speakers more linguistically aware and, therefore, more intuitive of the grammar rules of languages.

But there’s an even more important reason why speaking French might make you a better English speaker: there are strong links between the two languages.

Higher SAT scores

​The American Council on Standard Examinations published a series of studies citing that “language learning correlates with higher academic achievement on standardized test measures. Their findings pointed to increased “vocabulary development”¹ and an overall, positive link between bilingual students and improved SAT verbal scores.

Additionally students studying second languages scored better on science tests in the area of the “quality of their hypotheses.” Conjugating verbs & identifying the masculine or feminine of words in another language is a rigorous practice that yields intelligence. The practice of dissecting words, their meaning, and their correct (or incorrect) use is what the SAT reading comprehension, verbal, and essay sections incorporate.

Multiple Choice

Student who study another language score __________ on the SAT.

• lower

• higher

Top Languages to improve SAT SCORE

Unique

Taking the less popular option will make your skills more valuable.  In a competitive job market, having proficiency in French sets you apart from other candidates. It demonstrates your commitment to personal and professional growth, making you an attractive prospect for employers seeking global-minded individuals.

“candidates who speak more than one language have a 30% higher chance of getting hired across the job market.” - indeed.com

More $$$

“ Bilinguals earn about $7,000 more per year than monolinguals while trilinguals earn a potential of $15,000 to $18,000 more depending on the language and location. ” 
- US Bureau of Labor Statistics 

Multiple Choice

Trilinguals earn a potential of _______ more depending on the language and location.

• $7,000

• $12,000

• $10,000

• $15,000 to $18,000

Multiple Choice

 In a competitive job market, having proficiency in French ....

• is not necessary

• is not needed

• sets you apart from other candidates.

• sets you behind other candidates

Multiple Choice

Taking the less popular option will make your skills ________

• less valuable

• unnecessary

• uncool

• more valuable