If you don't have another language, you are condemned to occupy the same positions, the same phrases, all your life.
(If you can test the whole system out with a friend who speaks (and writes) in the language you are prepping for, all the better).
True enough, but if you aren't masterful in your own language you are at an enormous disadvantage socially, cognitively and economically.
First you imitate the mindset of the language you are struggling to learn, then you inhabit it, and finally it inhabits you, and you are more than you once were.
10 By learning a language, you are guaranteeing yourself a lifetime of being able to walk past Rosetta Stone concessions in shopping centres without feeling like a horrible veiny blob of wasted potential, as I usually do.
"With an additional language, you are able to communicate better and more widely, and the mere fact of having this sub-discipline indicates your ability to concentrate and deploy your language skills in the legal practice," says Porro.
If you speak one language, you are American.
As anyone working in public relations knows, if you control the language you are half way to defining an issue.
To master a language, you are better off studying a consistent amount — no matter how small — as regularly as possible.
To be a medical writer, you must be fluent in the language you are using, and you must be able to construct logical, grammatically correct sentences.
or persons whom you believe cannot understand the statements that are made to them (infants, the insane, etc., as well as those whom you believe cannot understand the language you are speaking in).
