Has speaking diferent languages enriched your life?
445574
I think it has. I can enjoy the literature, theater and cinema of a number of cultures I otherwise could not. I also suspect that if you speak more than one language you get a better understanding of each language. It's as if you develop a concept of meta-language; a sense about "language" itself.\n\nTo quote an English friend, "What can you know about ale if you drink the same one all your life?"
662792
I'm Italian, I traveled in Spain and Portugal and had no serious problems in communicating with people using our own languages. It's kind of funny, but it's not that straightforward as it seems. On the opposite, it can be very misleading sometimes. When details are important, such as in job meetings, I always switch to English.\nI have worked also with Danish people, they told me that  Swedish, Danish and Norwegian can understand each other even more easily, as they were the same nation until a few centuries ago.\nThese Danish guys were also able to read Dutch newspapers (but not to understand the Dutch pronounce).
897392
I am learning Chinese (Mandarin). I have already studied for five years, with about half of that time spent in Taiwan or China. I enjoy it a lot!
501292
I took for two years in high school and two years in college and spoke pretty well. I loved it. It's such a pretty language and a good skill to have to seduce men in bars. They think a little southern girl speaking French is cute.\n\nAs far amusing goes, one fun thing I did with it in college was take French Theatre class. We had to perform an entire French play in French. It was a fun experience.\n\nGood luck! I think you'll love it.
794145
When I came to USA, I was speaking English but thinking in Romanian... As time passed, I begun to think more in English. But, for example, I still swear (automatically) in Romanian when I play PC games and stuff doesn't come out the way I want it. :))) It just comes to me like that.\nThing is, no matter what language you speak more and what language you think in, you will never forget your mother's tongue.
971400
Oh, yes, I have heard people speaking Spanish, German, Russian, Italian, French, Japanese, Creole, Latin.\nNow ask a serious question. Enough with the jokes
601431
The mind is an awesome treasure chest just waiting to be filled - I have heard of people who could speak as many as 9 to 13 languages fluently - I have spoken personally to one man who could speak 7.
742947
It doesnt make a difference to me except it is always good to speak to people from different cultures and countries, it is interesting to learn about them and see how they react with certain speeches.
265390
There are no should's in languages. You can't prevent people from speaking whichever language they feel most comfortable with in their everyday life.\n\nBesides, USA would be culturally a lot poorer if they dropped other languages spoken there. Multilingualism makes people culturally better.\n\nAnyway, I sense a certain intolerance and narrow-mindedness in your question, and I wonder if you really care to enrich your cultural background.
631655
Me,I am crazy about languages.I already study English ,French,Spanish and wanna learn Italian , German and...
1142660
What field? Learning English? The best way to strengthen any language is to speak it in conversation. You've got to keep using it. I'd love to learn languages. Keep using it!
1110661
Continuing my grammatical corrections from your first post...\n\nOf course, there were situations that affected my academic records either positively or negatively. The fact that I traveled a lot made me more respectful of those who come from different cultural backgrounds and also made me fluent in three languages. I am looking forward to learning Spanish someday. One of my negative situations, quite recently, I had two jobs and was also a full-time student. I was so overwhelmed that I couldn’t do everything at once and, in the end, I had to drop one of my classes. Of course, I took it again and completed with a B+. However, this negative experience does have a bright side. It is true that it costs me money and time, but since then I have understood that my only full-time job is being a student.\n\nGood luck.
295608
Most people outside of America speaks more than 1 language. Personally, I speak, read, and write 4 different languages.
602362
i can speak 7 languages and understadn more than 10..i learnt them cuz i love learning new languages..its so much fulfulling to able to understand so many languages..its intoxicatin really
297423
Tough question. And hard to explain. Indeed, something that has been discussed for over two thousand years.\nGoing to the basics of contemporary linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure made a distinction between language and speaking (even though they depend on each other)or langue et parole in french . He considered language the conventional system used for communication and speaking as the personal uses, changes and meanings for an individual. When this personal changes or intermissions from other languages get to the conventional system, language is modified; so, we make use of the system and we modify it from the inside.\nThis is a theory brought up in the beginning of 20th century and has been largely discussed and changed over the years; still, it sets some general characteristics of language.\nIn any case, as language is something we can not grab on the entirely as it is constantly modifying, we could even believe that has a life of its own, which sounds to "mystical" for me: I'd rather believe it flows as we flow.
362016
i learned french and english by moving here and living with women who speak the language.  immersion.
664150
Really I think any language beautiful, except for English and German.  I love how Asian languages are.  I think they are so cool.  I also love Thai food :-)