Why it pays to be multilingual

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Uploaded by on Apr 1, 2008

Professors from the foreign language and literatures department explain the benefits of knowing more than one language, including understanding your own language better, being better off in the job market and just having fun.

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  • learning Esperanto creates enthusiasm and competency for subsequent study of and conversational skills in other languages. Therefore, it is should be no surprise to learn that studies have not only born out that Esperanto can be mastered in a fraction of the time of national languages, but that its study more than makes up for the time spent learning it by substantially accelerating subsequent language learning.

  • Esperanto serves as an ideal language model, having phonetic orthography, regular, consistent conjugations and declensions, logical grammar, and ingenious systems of word building. In spite of its streamlined nature, Esperanto’s sophisticated and exacting enough to be have been used in a wide assortment of technologies, and prolific literature has shown its vocabulary can describe the finest nuances of meaning.

  • Go Chico State!

  • “Educating children on different languages and cultures is important! If you share the same view, and would like to check out some foreign language programs for your kids visit Lango Foreign Languages for Kids

  • lol. i like that last line.

  • Good point about the war thing lol.

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