What does learning a language mean to you?
A language is used widely to communicate with diverse groups of individuals and communities. Learning languages opens opportunities, bridges gaps between people and their environment, and, most importantly, is key in building communities and a sense of belonging to them. Personally, I feel by learning a language, you are willing to reach out the people in that community and assures your ability “to do” something in another language. Learning a language is very important in a globalized society as today. When I was at school, I began learning Japanese, and then French at GCSE level, and continued to study them at A-level, whilst I became quite proficient unfortunately through lack of use and integration into my daily life, my knowledge and memory of French was sunk back to a basic level of proficiency. I think this is a pretty interesting point to consider in learning languages because we can be truly multilingual, but our proficiency is determined by our environment a...