World Language

Knowing a world language helps people learn their own language better, making them better speakers in their own tongue. They teach you the theories behind language works which makes you understand how English works better too by giving you exposure to other grammatical systems.

That is the least important reason for learning a language.

Being bilingual makes it so you can communicate with more people around the world. By offering four years of multiple languages, you make it so that people can communicate with people from other countries when they come to America, making tourists feel more at home, and makes it so that people can go overseas traveling to where they want to go while still being able to communicate with the people where they are.

I have personally that it also stimulates brain activity, showing me more patterns in language, and also is fun to know.

Countries in Europe start teaching multiple languages to children when they are younger than 14, for example, I have a friend in Georgia, and he has been learning English since he was in Elementary school as part of the standard curriculum. After so many years speaking English, one cannot tell that it is not his native tongue. This helps him travel around the world. English is spoken by approximately 1 out of 6 people on Earth, which means that there are still a lot of people who we can't speak to without a translator in our native tongue.

The last and least important reason is that it allows people to travel to other countries, like my friend, and volunteer spreading kindness, and be able to communicate more effectively in the places they want to go.

It also doesn't just mean you communicate better in places where it is the official tongue, because languages like German, French, Spanish, and Chinese are spoken all over the world where they are not the official language. These are only a few examples.