Why Learning a Second Language is Important and How Effective Language apps Can Be?

 

We all want growth and it only comes up with trying different things in different areas. Nowadays due to Globalization, people from different regions come forward to work with people of different language and cultures.

So it becomes a necessity to add a new Language into your resume while trying for different jobs. Language impacts the daily lives of members of any race, creed, and region of the world. Language helps express our feelings, desires, and queries to the world around us.

Our Mother tongue is one of the most basic parts of our identity. Learning other language is important as form of communication besides our own because it helps us to learn about other peoples and cultures.

Why One Should Learn a Foreign Language?

1. Positive Attitude

Learning a new language creates a positive attitude and it gives a boom to your analytical skills. You will feel uplifted and more enthusiastic at your work places.

2. Increased Value in Market

Your demand as an employee in market will also increase as you will possess good communication and business opportunities for the company. Dealing with another culture enables people to gain a more profound understanding of their own culture.

3. International Travels are Easier

International travel is made easier and more pleasant through knowing a foreign language. Skills like problem solving, dealing with abstract concept are increased when you study a foreign language.

4. Benefit in Your Career Building

Foreign languages provide a competitive edge in career choices that whether one is able to communicate in a second language or not. It enhances listening skills and memory. You can also participate more effectively and responsibly in a multi-cultural world if you know another language.

5. Enhancing Your Viewpoint

The most important thing about learning a new language enhances your viewpoint, you will be able to see the world from a different angle and you will be able to give respect to other cultures as well.

6. Improve Your Skills

Language learning helps develop strong cognitive skills, such as a better concept formation, mental flexibility, multitasking, listening skills and problem-solving, in addition to improving social interaction and encouraging connection between peers. 

Popular Language Apps

In today’s world, you need not to be waiting for any special classes to learn something new. You just have to search it in the internet and variety of online classes, apps and webinars will virtually come to you.

You need not to travel long hours or submitting hectic forms anywhere, you can simply learn everything at you home. Nowadays Language apps are very popular, it gives you a chance to have a learning experience in a better than before.

There are many language apps available on Google Play Stores and App stores. You can simply search for a language app and you can invest 25-30 minutes daily to improve your language and master the second language.

Most Popular Language apps available nowadays are Duolingo, Busuu, Babbel, Memrise, Hello Talk, HiNative, TripLingo, Leaf, Tinycards and many more.

How Effective Language Apps Can Be?

Language apps offer opportunities to practice grammar and can be a very rewarding way to learn vocabulary. But there has been discussion about just how effective can these apps are, particularly when it comes to other skills such as writing and speaking.

The research found that more than half of the respondents were between 18 and 25. More than half consider themselves to be at beginner level and the proportion of user’s decreases as their language levels go up.

Most people use the app because of personal interest, holiday travel, because of their career goals or personal aspirations, or because they want to study or live abroad. Most people use it several times a week for an average of 15 minutes. We found that female users tend to use it less often but for longer periods of time than male users. 

The results shows that language learning apps provide a service those learners find useful. The perception of time spent on language learning apps shows how far these apps have come in a short time.

What You Can’t Learn From a Language App?

A language app can make your learning easy but even if you’ve managed to succeed at the impressive feat of memorizing 1,000 vocabulary terms. It doesn’t count for much if you can’t use them in an actual conversation.

Learning a language in theory is not the same as learning it in practical world. Fluency is a big thing to effectively speak a language and this will only be achieved if you practice the sentences daily.

If you are able to characterize the difference and pronunciations but still there is something left to be learned that the native speakers of that region speaks. By this you will still feel wanted somewhere while speaking.

So we can conclude that Language Apps are effective to learn a second language as it takes you to the best learning experience but at the same times, errors and fluency can be improved by consistent practice and exposure with the native speakers.

Witten by - Simranpreet  Kaur Rattu

Edited by – Adrija Saha