The importance of learning other languages

By Juan Tutasi

There are different kinds of language in this world and learning more as you can will help you in many ways of your life for example in the job, or meeting people from other countries . Learning another language improves your abilities to use your first language and explore other cultures more succesfully. But trying to learn another language is not always easy, so how much difficult is to learn another language different from our mother tongue?
The answer depends on ther years and dedication you devote learning these languages, but in fact there is another factor that helps us or not learning some types of languages. These are the Family languages:


For example, if our mother tongue is the Spanish or any latin language, we will learn easier and faster another latin languages because they are very similar, and languages like Chinese , Deutsch or others will be more difficult, although they have each other some common words. The most important language nowadays is the English. English began famous since then 1st World War. The United States of American and Britain, were the countries with more colonies, like Australia and many territories of Africa. This is the reason why English has a lot of speakers around the world. English is a obligatory subject in most of schools, highschools and universities of the world. The English is the franc language nowadays and it's very useful because it is talked in every country. But not everybody speaks English, around 75% of the world's population don't speak any word of English.
Learning languages opens doors to other cultures and gives the learner an experience of the world that goes deeper than the average tourist trip. It can also provides a key to the global workplace.

Why is it important for children to learn languages?
·Learning a foreign language makes our minds stronger and more flexible.
-It improves our chances of employment.
-You feel really good when you can speak many different languages.
-Languages connect the world and have the potential to make it a more peaceful place.
-It is used in business and for pleasure of communication.
-It develops a cultural understanding and makes better relationships with others.
-Language learning helps brain power and improves your language skills.

Why is it important employers know languages?
-Research has shown that using language skills in business opens the door to a wide range of economic, social and personal benefits.
- A lot of employers are looking for employ people with conversational language skills
-Customers addressed in their mother tongue are much more likely to do business with you.
-Studying a foreign language improves your oral and written skills in English too, and this also helps to develop key communication skills, that are crucial in the job.
-English, French and German are still the most useful languages, Spanish is increasing his importance around the world

These are some of the reasons why it is important to learn languges. Why don't you try it?

MAHATMA GANDHI

By Andreea Nicoleta Radu

Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi (1869-1848) was an Indian thinker. He is commonly knew by the nickname Mahatma which signify "good soul". He had studied law in the university College of Londres and he had returned to India in 1915.

In 1921 he was just a member of the Indian National Congress. He had instaured new methods of fighting (strikes and hunger strikes, he rejected armed struggle and preached the non-violence.

Its moral influence on the development of the conversations for the Independence of India was cosiderable, but after the separation from Pakistan he was deeply discouraged.

Ghandi had tried to reform the indian society by integrate the lowest castes and developing the rural zones. He had disapproached the religious conflicts after the Indian Independence.

THE NON-VIOLENCE

Gandhi wasn't the creator of the non-violence, but he was the first in aplique it in the politic stair. Gandhi explains his filosofy and his way of life in the autobiography "THE STORY OF MY EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH". He said:

• "When I despair, I remember that throughout history has always won the way of truth and love. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time seemed invincible, but in the end always fall; - think about it always."

• "What difference does the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the wanton destruction carried out in the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?"

• "The eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind."

• "There are many causes that I'm prepared to die, but none that I'm prepared to kill."

When the invasion of the Britanic Isles by Nazi Germany looked imminent in 1940, Gandhi offered the following advice to the British:

• "I wish you surrender the weapons must be useless for saving you or saving humanity. Invite Mr. Herr Hitler and Mussolini to take what they want of the countries you call your possessions ... If these gentlemen choose to occupy your home, I leave them. If you don't want to let go, allowing you to kill everyone-men, women and children, but I promised them to deny your loyalt

In an interview after the war in 1946, he offered a view at an even further extreme:

• "Hitler," Gandhi said, "killed five million Jews. Crime is the greatest of our time. But the Jews were offered the butcher's knife. Should be thrown into the sea from cliffs ... and that stirred the world and the people of Germany ... "

When he was little, he ate meat. But all his life, Mahatma Gandhi was vegetarian because his family was hindu and, in the Hinduism all the believers are vegetarians. He said:

• "I feel that spiritual progress will demand that we mustn't kill and eat the creatures of God just to meet our sensual desire and perverted."