I can’t imagine myself by knowing nothing about English language, since this language is our international dialect. And through exploring myself by talking to any foreign people, I am now able to speak English slightly. But it seems that I did not use the language well, so I encouraged myself to go in universities to learn English and to enhance my capability to speak it well. I know that learning English is not so very simple, but I do have an interest to learn it. If ever that I can manage myself, to speak English language well then I will surely use it through communicating to foreign people. Currently today, English especially in making foreign friends can help us a lot. To have friends by communication can be often heard through internet. Internet is one of the tools currently use to have foreign friends through chatting. Mostly, people who love to chat are currently using English language through communicating the other people across the country.

Chatting is not the only way to learn English language, but at the same time in researching any language that are exciting to use. Through internet you can find any languages that you think it suits you. As we know that, internet has a big help for us by learning anything through research and chatting across the country. We can even talk to our families that are already in the foreign country. They can be able to send us emails, or something that makes us happy. Now and then foreign language will encouraged all to learn, especially the international language we used. Generation to generation, English dialect still be present, to be able that the world become one. To learn languages like English, can be a very important for us, so that we were not behind to any foreign country. We must be very thankful that someone is willing to educate us the foreign language. But most importantly chatting can collect friends through communicating using English language. And because of these international friends you are speaking English with, you also learn a little of some other foreign languages. I met a Swedish guy on a language trip, ‘språkresor’, and because of him I speak basic Swedish.

And the Internet, do not just browse the web. There are lots of ways to loiter around the Internet. You can have a video conference with someone from the other side of the globe. You can watch streaming videos. Even playing in such games as Rainbow Six, Resident Evil or Counterstrike can already complement what formal English lessons you are taught in school. You can do these on weekends or the whole summer and holiday season long. If you’re bored at home, you can even watch movies at your local IMAX moviehouse.

The one currently playing which I certainly recommend you to watch is Eastern Promises. Because of heavy male nudity scenes, the movie is for moviegoers 18 years old and above only so make sure you have already celebrated your debut before you get in. For many Spanish girls who are turning 18 this February, make this as your gift to yourself. This film has already been released in Spain last September but because star Viggo Mortensen has been nominated for a best actor Oscar for his poignant role in the movie, it is currently enjoying a rerun all over the country. And I definitely recommend it for Spanish girls who have just turned 18 because Viggo is nude here in a three-minute fight scene. Think of it as your coming-of-age gift. Aside from enjoying the movie, you can also enjoy listening to the English dialogue and learn something. And I also want to recommend that you watch the movie in a cinema with no subtitles at all so you really can make out the conversations yourself without visual assistance. That is if you really want to learn English that bad.

Aside from Viggo, another awesome star in a movie that I like is Naomi Watts. Even now that she’s turning 40, Naomi is still lovely and would still pass as a 27-year-old hottie. The English conversations in all her movies are also worth renting and watching again and again at home especially if you pause and rewind them all over if you really are interested to maximize learning English. Her first movie that I like is The Ring. Although it is a remake of a Japanese original, the Hollywood version has perfect English pitch.

Even though you come from Spain, you will not just be exposed to European languages but you will be taught various languages in the world because you may be employed to a resort that is located in Tahiti or Phuket. There are definitely differences in culture in those places that I have mentioned. But expect the Swiss hotel school to teach you first the dialects in your own country. Thus you may encounter studying Basque in Bern. That is not so far-fetched though as Swiss hotel schools are equipped with the most competent linguists in the world. That definitely is not an exaggeration. It’s simply the truth.

If you are from Salamanca, the tourists in your home country of Spain usually consist of people from England, Portugal, Germany, Finland, Iceland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Thus, these are the languages that you are at least familiar to learn. Aside from English and Portuguese, these other languages are called Scandinavian languages which all have origins in the German language.

Another way to learn other languages while at the same time having fun is getting a degree in international relations at the Universidad de Madrid. Once you have an advanced grasp of the French language, you may be awarded a slot in the foreign student exchange program and you can experience a very fruitful and meaningful visit to Paris for one semester. You will not only bask in the limelight at the City of Lights, there will also be spiritually refreshing visits to such sites as the Our Lady of Miraculous Medal near the outskirts of Paris.

Or if you want your specialization to be English, then you may go to London someday and ride the London Eye or marvel at the amazing architectural style of London City Hall which is neither Gothic nor medieval but simply futuristic. You may even enjoy a concert with The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus at Hyde Park or watch the IMAX version of the heart-wrenching (figuratively of course) movie Atonement. Or if what you are learning is the rhotic form of English, then you may get to be involved in another foreign student exchange program but this time in Georgetown University in Washington, DC. You will get to have a tour at the White House or at Foggy Bottom where the State Department holds its offices. See? There are indeed tons of opportunities if only you learn a second language at the right time.

Europe is really as special one at that when it comes to that situation. Take note of North America. There are only three languages spoken in three countries (the United States, Canada and Mexico) – English, French and Spanish. The entire Central and South Americas speak only one language – Spanish. The subcontinent of Australasia which includes Australia, New Zealand, the Solomon Islands, Tonga and Fiji speak Australian English only. Middle East speak Arabic while most of the countries in Africa speak English. Asia is an exception being not contiguous and being the largest continent on Earth. But in Europe, we have lots of languages here.

Actually, the languages of Europe have only one origin – German and Frankish. They were the languages spoken of old by both nomadic and settling tribes. Later when the Romans invaded Europe, they absorbed these two languages in their own historic tongue. Thus, all the languages found in Europe right now including English off the Island of Great Britain as well as Spanish, Portuguese, modern German, modern French and even the Slavic languages to some extent as well as the Scandinavian languages up north emerge from one language – Roman. Thus we can deduce these languages as Romance languages. It’s entirely different from romance which is associated with erotic. Yet when you come to Paris this Christmas to learn French, we can say that it is indeed a romantic language.

Indeed, it is romantic to spend Christmas here in Paris and learn the local language at the same time. It is even nicer if you already have a Parisian date waiting for you in the City of Lights so you can stroll around the city at the same time the woman will teach you a few words in the French vocabulary while dining elegantly with bouillabaisse complete with either white or red wine at a posh Paris restaurant. The City of Lights which is Paris is literally that during Christmas season. The Eiffel Tower is lighted up including other key structures in the city such as Champs Elysees, the Notre Dame Cathedral, the Louvre, the Arc de Triomphe and numerous others.

Or if you want to spend Christmas in a warmer land, then go to Australia. It’s the middle of summer there in Australia during Christmas and our traditional noche buena is celebrated there as a Christmas Day luncheon every December 25.

Some of these people who have never become celebrities have become entrepreneurs. They have established Spanish language schools here in Florida. Their clients are the Caucasians and the African-Americans who want to know how to speak Spanish. But not all Americans learn another language here in the United States. Others go to foreign countries to acquire languages at their hearts and wherever they’re spoken.

A few of these go to Paris and embark on a six-month academic tour to the place. If your study is charged to your company, then you’re all the more lucky. Because in a specific language program, there are lots of excursions attached to it. Language academies all over the world are actually now integrating other studies to them. There is such thing as culture appreciation. These language institutions also act as hospitality schools to some extent. They are largely supported by the French tourism ministry. France may be an industrial hub but tourism is still a byword here. The French people have been known to be the brightest and the most intellectual all over the world.

That characteristic has not evaded the French language instructors. But do not worry; they are not as strict as you think. They will even help you if you cannot cope with the French language. Usually, these schools organize educational trips around Paris. They will disperse you to the most overcrowded places where you are encouraged to eavesdrop on public conversations. Once you have understood these conversations and relayed these back to class the day after, your French language instructors will take note of that and earmark you as a bright learner.

But if you’re not contented with that scheme, try the language exchange program instead. Under this system, you will be introduced to a native Parisian who will help you out in tutoring you about the French language. In return, you will also teach him a few English words and chat about your culture back in Maine or in Georgia.

In the Philippines, there are all crash courses in learning Tagalog, the language here. Students who usually enroll in these schools are Caucasian husbands of Filipinas here. They are not only using English as the first tongue, some of them come from Germany, the Seychelles, France, Spain and Portugal, among others. Whichever country you come from, learning a foreign language is really essential not just for self-satisfaction but also for eventual profitable opportunities in the future.

But there are affluent countries which do not celebrate Christmas. Think Japan for example. If you want to study Japanese, then go to Tokyo. Prices for Japanese language studies there are really exorbitant so you may as well go to other equally adorable cities such as Nagano and Kyoto. Next in line on our list of nice countries to study a second language is China. Forget Beijing, it’s reclusive. Forget Hong Kong and Macau, they’re boring. The in thing in China nowadays is Shanghai what with the many Hollywood movies associated with it like Stealth and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. So if you want to study Mandarin or Cantonese, Shanghai has the best of both worlds.

Next stop would be Cambodia. Whether you like it or not, Khmer is a beautiful language. How do you pronounce the name Bebe Pham? That is a Khmer name. And that name belongs to a wonderful lady who’s now the most popular Cambodian model in the world. Right now, she’s in the Philippines shooting a movie in Cebu courtesy of the Philippines’ very own Hollywood company, Bigfoot Entertainment.

Speaking of the Philippines, how about studying some Tagalog or any of its dialects this Christmas season. The Christmas season is one of the most enjoyable times of the year in the Philippines. It is where great parties, great dining and great fireworks take place. In fact, lots of expatriates take time off to study Philippine dialects during their two-week holiday breaks in preparation of wooing Filipino women. After all, lots of interracial marriages are occurring here in an almost daily basis.

Now we go to Spain. The Spanish language is one of the most romantic in Europe. It may not eclipse the beauty of the Italian or the French language but it is simply wonderful in its own right. Spain has its own dialects too like the Basques and the Catalans. To the north of the Iberian Peninsula, Spain shares a land border with the Portuguese. The Portuguese is another Romance language which has its own unique heritage. Try to study this language too. It’s not like studying something which is alien to the ears. All you need to do is grasp the basics and then manipulate your learning from there. Just like Spanish, Portuguese also comes from the Germanic and Frankish languages of old when these two pre-historic languages were later inserted into the Roman language. From South Korea to Tahiti, from Florida to Ontario, studying languages is here to stay.

The children nowadays are fortunate to have an early exposure of the foreign language. We all know that these recent years learning for a foreign language brings significance not only to our individual needs but to everybody. Since learning a foreign language alone does not mean of learning it because you wanted to learn it, but because there are significant issues beyond. It is an opportune for a person to engage with the foreign language because there are many opportunities beyond its pace. There are many doors of opportunity when learning for a foreign language. Maybe you were thinking that learning for a second language is useless because it’s just a mere language. Don’t you think that learning a foreign language is another reason why one particular country becomes progressive because of the foreign language? Yes it is true!

Since then, most of the universities worldwide decided to include teaching a foreign language for the benefits not only for their kids but for everybody. Universities mostly worldwide starting to teach a foreign language from the primary level; it is better to teach a foreign language starting from the kids because there are more articulate and easy to teach unlike with the adults. Once a kid learns a foreign language it will inculcate in their mind forever. Learning a foreign language is considered as a challenge. We can never learn a foreign language for a sudden, it always started in basic. Eventually, you will be catching the beauty of how it works when you started to use through talking or writing an article or any form of writings.

However, talking and writing alone with the foreign language is not enough. Consider always the correct usage of grammar it has. Since your foreign language could be ineffective without its proper grammar. Your foreign language can be misinterpreted if not properly used. It even be the reasoned of fighting among the person you are talking with or can turn to one country’s chaos. But a foreign language could also be the reason of countries unity. Each of the country’s leaders discussing about important issues were using one particular foreign language. In this sense the communication among all the leaders runs smoothly and very much successful with of course the help of the foreign language.

Aside from the universities that were now offering the subject of foreign language, there are also rampant programs emerge which also offers teaching a foreign language. These programs were established because they wanted to give chance to those people who already finished their studies but have not experience learning a foreign language. While some of the persons engage in learning a foreign language because they wanted to face the challenges when learning for a second language. Some of the facts why they engage learning for a second language because they wanted to know the other culture; what is important is embracing one particular language is a factor to become a successful individual. You can use it wherever you go and it could be your tool when applying great jobs abroad.

We maybe thinking of the reasons why recently the number of students learning a second language arises from its previous number? How important learning the second language why it seems that not only one particular country rushed to learn a second language but there are many. Well then, learning for a second language aside from your native one is very important nowadays. Since the world evolved, we can never thwart individual to change as well as the things that surrounds us. Before, learning a second language does not matter; the people think that they can survive their life with their own language itself. Until the days, months and years came and everything just transformed. Every country has its own invaders from its past history and the familiarities of another language emerge.

And because of that phenomena, the importance of learning a second language reign. The second language could help not only an individual but it can help one country to progress. If a person knows one particular language he/she can help ones economy to arise, since for example. If the president of one of the particular country knew how to speak another language particularly English, negotiating with the other country using the Universal language could be a good points to have the possibilities that his/her country would progress, since the country he/she is asking with could help his/her country with regards to any problems. And if a student knew a second language, he/she will never be left behind with so many opportunities that come her/his way.

To some other, they think that learning for a second language is just a waste of time. They never think that learning for a second language means opening a bunch of opportunities in life. No questions why, nowadays every universities in almost all the countries included one or two second language as part of their subjects. The universities believe that the students they are helping to learn for another language could be the ones who could help in the progressiveness of their country. Another thing to remember about learning a second language since it can bring one country to unity. Since even with the neighboring countries the fact that they speak different language; being familiar with a second language mostly the universal language which is English, the chaos between two countries will run smoothly. There could never have prosperity in every country if there is no understanding with regards to language matters.

Now, even the most prominent personalities all over the world enrolled themselves with the second language. Even those persons who’s age lapses from the calendar. Anyways, studying not only for a second language; age doesn’t matter. As long as you are eager to learn, you can easily learn anytime you want. Learning an unfamiliar vernacular is quite hard at first but eventually upon your journey of learning it, you will learn to appreciate it and you will love speaking with it even in your daily speaking dialect. Don’t waste time, enroll yourself in a second language and appreciate every opportunity that comes your way.

CHILDREN growing up in a multi-culture are lucky. They grow up in an environment where other persons tend not to look like them and speak like them and they have learned to accept it. But it is so awkward if for instance a New Yorker couple with their 14-year-old daughter has left the Big Apple behind and settled in Nagono. It will surely be awkward for the poor girl who has to endure wearing those strange slut-looking short skirts to school and conversing with peers who speak halting English. But with proper orientation, one can eventually embrace the language in the new environment.

There are countless other examples that need to be told. And admiring a foreign language is not just for a child. It is also for people who are forever curious of other humans around him. This is where the science of sociology comes in. Even in this highly technological world of Internet and iPhones that we live in, sociology has never been an obscure field of study because human interaction keeps evolving. And on that parallel level is the acquisition of other languages too. For centuries, man has never appreciated communicating with other animals on the level of communicating with fellow humans. But the hang of it is that there are different languages spoken by man. Forget about the Babel explanation because there is no such thing. Human tongue has been divided not because of some divine strike but because we are born in different continents.

There are contiguous continents like Europe where even neighboring countries speak different languages. This is the result of lots of factors – the shifting of movement of nomadic civilizations of old, the conquest of far superior tribes (think of the Romans) who may have influenced or forced their language into their colonies (think of Spain or France). That is why, the Europe of today is composed of such contiguous countries as Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Portugal who may have one thing in common – the Alps mountain range – but peopled with a diverse population as far as language is concerned.

Even in Spain, there are numerous dialects spoken – there’s Castilian, Basque, Catalan, etc. Spain’s peculiar character doesn’t end there. Even in its colonies like the Philippines, there are lots of vernaculars. There’s Chavacano, Tagalog, Cebuano and Maranao. It is within this reason that the European Union has created a mandate some decades ago mandating that each European sophomore high school student learn another continental language in one academic semester which is equivalent to six calendar months of course. That may be taxing but Western Europe is a progressive continent. And in a developed country, one needs to be competitive. One needs to know another European language so the country’s economy would not be left behind.

If Japan can do it, so can the Europeans. The Japanese have known to be nationalistic and are even harsh enemies of the West during World War II. But after the war, they have adopted the English language and have even invaded American business so to speak. That is the advantage of learning a second language. It spawns prosperity.

Yet in all these groups of study, the medium used remains the same – English. Then later on in our primary studies as we are introduced through subjects which induce cultural awareness such as history, we will learn that we are not alone in this comfortable and familiar bubble that we live in. We learn that this planet is made of several bubbles, each having a distinct culture and language. A Babel-like situation arises. That’s why as early as sixth grade, we are encouraged to take a second language course. Under the No Child Left Behind Act signed by President Bush in 2003, American students whose mother tongues are not in English encourage to take the language as a second course so they won’t be left behind when they grow up and can compete with their English-speaking counterparts.

This is when multilingual schools in the United States were born. There are lots of multilingual methods to begin with. One method involves half of the students as Spanish-speaking for example while the other halves are native English speakers. The Spanish-speaking students will ask the teacher in their vernacular, the teacher will answer in English and they will be assisted by their English-speaking counterparts. The same method is practiced in Canada where half of the population speaks English and the other half speaks French. Multilingualism doesn’t only exist in primary or even secondary schools though. It also exists in colleges and this method can be applied to foreign students who are here in the United States to study highly technical fields such as architecture and surgery.

If one is a French or an Iranian would-be surgeon, one cannot certainly understand English medical terms. So a multilingual method in teaching is conceived and the medical student is bombarded with lessons in his native language (French for the French, Farsi for the Iranian). For the last two years of his or her medical studies, the person then takes a few English lessons on the side focusing mostly on medical terms so one can grasp them in the host country which is the United States of course. Across the Atlantic, the European Union has mandated to its member states that all high school students must acquire the basics of a second language. The European Union powers-that-be have recognized the enormous diversities of that continent as far as language is concerned. Even though countries such as Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Poland, Norway and Scotland are closely located with each other, they don’t speak the same language. Spain alone has got loads of regional dialects.

As a closing to this article, one can be reminded of the movies Babel and Lost in Translation. If one doesn’t appreciate the language of another culture, one can really be lost in translation.