The Science Backing Up Your Language Learning Addiction
- Coach Ally
- Mar 25, 2024
- 2 min read
As language learners —or might I say language nerds? 🧐— we have all faced, at one point or another, people telling us that we were “wasting our time”, that “language learning was useless”, that “AI was going to replace all human translators and interpreters very soon” or even that "they recently discovered this app helping them automatically translate anything they say”.
“— You see? In the future we won’t need to learn each other’s languages anymore! Technology and AI have gotten rid of this issue!”
“Oh, has it now?” you might be thinking.
You might also be thinking that language learning isn’t only about translation from one language to another. It has many other benefits as well, both on individual level and society level, right?
Yes, you are right.
However, if you ever find yourself in front of a reluctant monolingual, you might want to back up your arguments even further.
That is why I have created for you a curated list of well-made SHORT videos, popularising what the fields of linguistics, psychology, neuroscience and sociology say about the topic of language learning.
Language Learning Is Good For Brain Health
After watching THESE videos, you'll think that knowing multiple languages literally is a SUPER POWER!
Learning Languages Shapes Our World
Learning languages comes with learning about different cultures and even world views, which in turn deeply changes the way we see the world, and the way we think. Here is THE video you want to send out to anyone who tells you otherwise.
About Accents
One last one for the road: one video to whip out if you are ever made fun of for having a foreign accent in a language!
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