Should we all strive to be trilingual at bare minimum in life?
Why or why not?
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4meAndyou · F
Language is like musical ability. If you can remember lilts and cadences and tempo, you are usually pretty good at languages...because speaking a foreign language is a lot like singing. Rote vocabulary and the ability to remember tenses is also necessary...but a lot of that is just memorization, like remembering the lyrics to your favorite songs.
I discovered, yesterday, that because I've taken five years of French, and because I learned pidgin Spanish at one of my employments, I was able to read and understand a birth certificate written in Italian!
That being said, if you have no one with whom to speak in that other language, it becomes useless knowledge, and it fades with disuse. If you live in Europe, then yes, it would be very useful.
If you live in the United States, you do need to learn some Spanish.
I discovered, yesterday, that because I've taken five years of French, and because I learned pidgin Spanish at one of my employments, I was able to read and understand a birth certificate written in Italian!
That being said, if you have no one with whom to speak in that other language, it becomes useless knowledge, and it fades with disuse. If you live in Europe, then yes, it would be very useful.
If you live in the United States, you do need to learn some Spanish.