Author: Ivana Dronjak The world today is more multicultural than ever before and knowing more than one foreign language can benefit you in many ways. First of all, you can become more successful since it can open more job opportunities for you. Second, it can boost your cognitive abilities by improving memory, help with keeping longer attention span, and it can even reduce risk of age-related cognitive decline. Finally and most importantly, you can have a better understanding of different cultures and have a more...

Source: www.edudemic.com   50 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Languages Learning another language is important. And even in the United States (where learning non-native language has typically been lagging a bit behind many other countries), nearly all students are studying another language. Languages are a part of everyday life – whether you speak one or more, they are one of the main keys of communication. Other than being able to speak a language (or not being able to speak it) there are a lot of fun facts...

Source: www.theguardian.com, The Guardian How do students best pick up languages? Martin Williams talks to academics, teachers and multi-lingual speakers to find out about the science of learning a languag.     Alex Rawlings was a language teacher’s dream. He fell in love with languages when he was eight and learnt Greek, then German, then Dutch. Now, an undergraduate at Oxford, he is the UK’s most multi-lingual student, speaking 11 languages. So what’s his secret? „I remember seeing...

Photo: Pixabay   Once considered too difficult to learn, learning German is now the newest fad. This was the topic in a recent article in The Economist. Germany is again proving itself attractive culturally, commercially, and linguistically. In other words, maybe Germany is successfully expanding its soft power, a term coined by Joseph Nye of Harvard University in 1990. There are several reasons why people all over the world are taking an interest in learning the language of Schiller and Goethe, and economically...