The benefits of learning a foreign language

Since 2001 the European day of languages 26 september (EDT), an initiative to encourage young and old to more languages. Travelactive does here to join and put for you the benefits of learning a foreign language in a row. Infographic Below shows what learning a foreign language also may affect your love life and intelligence.

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Do you speak the local language in the country where you are, then it becomes a lot easiertravel. You can not find the way, you can just ask. Also to, for example, the bus driver who only speak Spanish. In addition, make you much better and faster contact with the local population. Do you speak the language then you get a lot of appreciation and you will the country and the culture of much closer .

Research shows that people who speak one or more foreign languages are seen as more attractive . In Spanish, Italian, but also Irish (!) as the languages with the most sexy accent. Once you have found your love and you are to children: feed them than multilingual on. it turns out that this is conducive to the development of the memory and the General Intelligence of the child.

Not only for yourself, your child also has learning one or more foreign languages affect your intelligence. Speaking, but also learning new languages is conducive to the performance and the functioning of your brain. According to a psychological research that has a positive effect for your memory capacity, you multitask skills, attention, health and creativity. If you want to know exactly how this works, you can read in this article recently appeared.

By speaking several foreign languages you strengthen your resume. Especially in economic times it is even more important that you can differentiate from others in the labour market. Do you speak another foreign language, then you're still a lot more interesting for an employer. Especially when you consider that the economy must have the Netherlands especially of international trade.

You decide to learn a new language on a language school abroad then that, in addition to the aforementioned benefits, a number of benefits. Follow your language lessons with a language travel abroad. You sit in a class along with many other international students, whereby you have a lot of international friends, with which you can go do fun excursions and activities together. This means you speaking a foreign language quickly. And of course always handy to have a place somewhere abroad. Choose a language travel via Travel Active, then you can stay in a host family. The advantage of this is that you not only the language, but also the country and get to know the culture up close .

Read the experiences of..
Lisa did a Cambridge English course in Cambridge and stayed at an English host family. Find out how she has experienced the course and the language travel. Juul is currently in Madrid for a Spanish course of two months. It looks like it has the good sense to her.

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