Foreign Language Essay

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ADVANTAGES OF LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGE BY MALAYSIANS Nowadays, English has become a global lingua franca over the world but not everybody can converse well in English. According to Trimnell (2005), only 5.6% of the world total population uses English as their mother tongue. Besides that, the most spoken languages of the world is Mandarin then followed by English, Hindi, Arabic, Spanish, Russian, Bengali, Portuguese, Indonesian, German, Japanese, and lastly, French (Dinesh, 2010). This shows that learning foreign language have many benefits because it opens so many doors both personally and professionally. For example, if you are traveling to Europe, you may need to know the French language. If your business travels take you to Mexico or south, learning Spanish may be important to you and if you were studying at Japan, you must know their primary language, Japanese, for better conversation and to take part in their community. We are living in a multi-cultural world than ever before. Therefore, we as Malaysians should learn foreign languages other than Bahasa and English because to increase global understanding and gain knowledge, better job opportunities, and preparation to study abroad and travel to foreign country. First of all, learning foreign language can increase global understanding and gain knowledge. This is because people will be able to cross the mind and the background of other culture (Trimnell, 2005). According to Triminell (2005), to provide goods and services, resolve political issue and to ensure worldwide safety where state and citizens must be more dependants upon one another. In other words, if we Malaysians know how to communicate well with foreigners by understanding their language, we can deal easily with them beside, we can keep a good relation between Malaysia and other countries. Furthermore, we can also get a better

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