Why learn a foreign language?

With dedication and effort, anyone can learn a language, at any age. Learning a foreign language:

• improves your employment prospects in business, government, law, medicine, health care, communication, marketing, travel and hospitality, and many other fields
• allows you to better appreciate a wider variety of art, music, literature, and culture
• improves your analytic abilities and study skills
• helps dispel the global myth of the unaware, ugly American
• leads to better appreciation of diversity and multiculturalism
• keeps your brain young
• helps you connect with and befriend more people
• improves your understanding of your native language
• allows you to communicate with millions more people
• leads you towards better appreciation of the richness and diversity of human life and expression
• helps you see things from other perspectives and understand how other people think
• opens your mind and your world