Benefits of Multilingualism

DID YOU KNOW THAT…

There are over 7,000 languages spoken in the world today.

Speaking more than one language increases your cognitive abilities such as problem-solving, creativity, and memory.

THE BENEFITS OF LANGUAGE STUDY:

Your Career

Make Yourself a Global Asset: learn a foreign language.

Companies need multilingual employee. Foreign Language Skills Provide Sharp Edge in the

Job Market .

Cognitive Advantages

Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language.

“Bilingualism serves as enrichment for the brain and has real consequences when it comes to executive function, specifically attention and working memory. Bilingualism enhances

attention

If we speak a different language, we can perceive the world in a different manner."

It's estimated that more than half of the world's population is bilingual. That means about

3.5 billion people use more than one language to communicate every day.

Bilingualism can create job opportunities and help you navigate the world.

Knowing a second language broadens employment opportunities

Being bilingual, and especially multilingual, can help facilitate your travels. When languages share similar words and patterns, it's easier to apply your knowledge of one

language to another and thus make your way around certain regions of the world.

We live in an increasingly globalized and multicultural society; it has become critical more than ever that we have the ability and willingness to interact with many different kinds’

people and their diverse languages."

Your interactions with people of different cultures go deeper.

Multilingualism teaches tolerance towards other culture. It allows connecting socially with

people of various cultural, ethnic backgrounds. We can increase the number of people we can communicate with. Multilingualism is necessary in a Multicultural; cosmopolitan

society .It will help strengthen the relationship with other countries.

Assistant professor French

Hakkim.s

Center for foreign languages

Sethu Institute of Technology