I decided to write this article because in the world
we live today, learning new skills is very important. When I got in secondary
education English level increased a lot, specially comparing with elementary. It
was difficult to understand so many words in another language. I had to adapt
myself into school, but in some way it helped me to be a bilingual person.
I know that English is a universal language, and it’s
necessary to live in our world. But isn’t just about getting more job
opportunities, it is a complex process of learning more knowledge, new skills,
etc. When you learn another language you are going to be able to understand things
easily. There are other languages like: German, French, Italian, Spanish, and
also ancient ones like Greek and Latin.
In my personal experience, learning a new language
like English, helped me to research another documents and books very important
for my career as a historian. A lot of history documents had been made in English.
I also think is necessary to develop verbal skills. When you understand another
language is very easy express ideas in a better way, because you dominate
another kinds of expressions.
Understanding process isn´t easy, reading complex
books or documents requires very good knowledge of grammar structures,
vocabulary and logic. Is unbelievable how common people think a new language is
just about memory. That’s not true. A good example of that is the reading. If you
can speak a language, and you know how to read, that doesn’t mean that you are
going to understand complex information.
Because there are a lot of complex concepts that
requires time to understand. Now I want to get deep into the verbal skills. All
languages require understanding of logic processes. If have the knowledge of
many words, that doesn’t mean that you’re going to understand everything. There
are other complex situations; you need to know how to use the words in certain occasions.
A lot of people decide to learn another language
beside English. New different words force your mind to get more knowledge and
have culture. In some careers like history or literature, it’s important to
understand these idioms because a lot of ancient literature was written whit
that words.
One interesting last thing is the status some people presumed in the past dominating languages. Since the ancient times, a new language is a way to show intellectual supremacy. High class society invest money to lean different languages plus English. That is because understand how important is to show culture, or a knowledge that is reserved just for them.
In my country learning English is a great business,
for example some private schools demand high amounts of money to teach the
language in a better way. In some others they teach German too, maybe they won’t
use that information in practical life, but is a status privilege for a few
students.
Most of the parents like to presume that their kids are learning a lot of things they don’t even understand. That’s why the schools ask too much money for that knowledge. The bad thing sometimes is when the results are not good enough, or maybe standards aren´t correct. Not all schools provide quality education in
English although they ask too much money for the
preparation.
The last idea I wanted to share is a little comment
about how the Asians are improving learning English. Is unbelievable how this
people understand in a better way compared with us the foreign languages. And one
of the main reasons is the practical way of use it, also the perseverance and
the will to do the things.