Why should you learn a new language?
There are numerous reasons that highlight the importance of learning or acquiring new languages. We live in a world full of multilingual practices. As such, multilingualism have rather become the normality and monolingual practices tend to more and more obsolete. The mastery of many languages enables communication with a larger community and the broadening of one’s horizons. Moreover, cultural practices and cultural understanding are becoming globally contextualised.
The acquisition of a foreign language is good and of paramount importance for the human brain. As we learn or acquire a new language, we contribute in keeping our brain healthy and young. It slows down the ageing process of the brain cells as it creates new synapses connections. Learning and new language can help boost motivation when well managed. It reduces anxiety and procrastination.
Common mistakes in everyday English
One can easily get confused regarding the right usage of tenses in English, or the right order of adjectives that are generally placed in front of a noun to portray a description. The phenomenon is known as fossilisation. It can be described as an irreversible failure in an attempt to learn or acquire a language. That very mechanism ineluctably prevents the speaker from significantly improving their language skills due to many mistakes and the wrong language usage to which the speaker has unknowingly got used to, mostly without noticing them or without proper language instruction. Let us consider the following examples:
Franck passed his entrance exams in/at one of the most prestigious universities in/of America. His mother and the whole family is/are rejoicing for/in his remarkably/remarkable success.
The puzzling example stated above give a brief glimpse of how intricate language learning deserves a peculiar dedication.
