Are There Any Advantages In Knowing Another Language?
If you live in the UK then part of the curriculum is learning a foreign language. I actually had to learn two languages at school, for 2 whole years. I learnt French and Spanish for years 8 and 9 or school, and then once I had stopped learning them in year 10+ then I could barely remember a word of what I had learnt, and I have never needed to use them either. So what is the point?
You need to work hard if you want to learn a language, you can’t just jump in with a cheap learn German DVD that you bought for 10 bucks and learn a few basic phrases and objects, you won’t get a chance to use them even if you are on holiday. Or you could end up in a pickle even if you do manage to find a useful phrase you can learn like ‘Which way is the beach?’ as they will assume as you are speaking their language you can understand them, and then start speaking to you in their own language.
If you want to learn to speak the language, either because you go on holiday there every year or you want to move there etc, then you really need to do a course of lessons in your own time and learn it for a year or so. It will take a lot longer than that to become fluent in the language, but you will be able to hold a basic conversation with someone and know a lot of useful phrases and words to help you out too. If you don’t want to get that serious though as you only holiday in the country every so often, then I think you are better off getting a phrasebook. That way you have nothing to remember and can show the phrase to the person even if you can’t pronounce it.
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