The Amazing Benefits of Learning a New Language

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Learning a new language is not all about exams and stress! In this motivational podcast, we are looking at some of the enormous, exciting and unexpected wider benefits of investing your time and energy into learning and mastering a new language. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How many languages are you able to speak? Does being a polyglot, multilingual, or trilingual mean anything to you?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here are a few definitions and</span> <a href= "http://ilanguages.org/bilingual.php"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">statistics</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"> <strong>Polyglot</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">- is a person who can speak several languages (less than 1% of the world population can speak 5 languages fluently)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"> <strong>Trilingual</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">- an adjective that describes the ability to speak three languages (13% of the world population can speak three languages)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"> <strong>Monolingual</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">- able to express yourself in just one language (40% of the world population)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"> <strong>Bilingual</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">- able to use two languages (43% of the world population)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"> <strong>Multilingual</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">- describes multiple languages (3% of the world population speak more than 4 languages).</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many people find the thought of learning a new language intimidating, but once you examine your motivation and evaluate the reasons for wanting to learn a new language, you’ll find it’s not that hard at all. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">K