Multilingualism in the Global World

"If you spoke uncommon language, you would pick out a somewhat diverse world."

What is multilingualism?

This is the use of two or more languages, either by an individual speaker or by community of speakers. The number of multilingual speakers now over weighs monolingual speakers in the world and multilingualism is becoming a social occurrence governed by the requirements of globalization and cultural sincerity.

According to Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, had plenty to say on the matter of bilingualism back in the early 20^th century. Today, nearly 100 years later, it’s harmless to verbalize the ‘ole wordsmith would be proud. 

It’s estimated that more than a half of the world’s population is bilingual and according to psychology today, that means around 3.5 billion people use more than one language to communicate every day. There are commonly held paybacks attributed to these casual script swappers, most of them are symptomatic of an increase in cognitive processing, focus and the ability to multi-task. But to people who identify themselves as bilingual or multilingual, the benefits are usually solid and individual.

Learning how to speak many foreign languages extends outside the walls of your language class, according to the Oct, 25^th, 2013 Montana Public Radio Article titled “The importance of learning foreign languages” states that learning another language can improve the students’ mental focus, reading and writing abilities and even improve math skills. This clicks into my mind to say that a monolingual person always faces more problems when it comes to operating any business especially in a foreign market. Here you can basically opt for a translation agency if you were to run your business in multilingual markets. It’s not a joking matter, most business operators today succeed in multi-cultural and multilingual markets they can utilize services of language translation companies.

Prioritizing

Courtney Cox, sophomore in mass communication carried and found that there is nothing like taking on a foreign language to teach to prioritize. That made her currently to enroll in Spanish III.

Language is like kind of your saving grace, in a situation where you may two or more in a job interview and the employer may be looking at two people where the one who speaks a foreign language stands a chance to be taken thus it’s nice to have that merit. 

Cox said, “Just the fact that its four days a week and you are not used to going to class that much,” but “in my class where she assigns something at least every day, which by itself is not that much, but when you pair it with other things, you have to think different and also think in a foreign language.

Madison Moore, Sophore in applied music, said knowing a different language can aid in the not-so-typical career as she is currently taking Italian III. “As a vocal performance major, I felt extremely fortunate that K-state offered Italian,” Moore said. “Many of the most well known operas are in Italian

However, learning a foreign helps not only knowing its pronunciations but it helps so much in conveying your message be it of a business or anything to different audience and you can come down to become an excellent instructor. Moore said in her music career it worked nice for her, for she can now understand the texts on the page which enables her to connect with her music and gives a better chance of conveying that message to the audience.

For many people speaking more than one language keeps them connected to their families. If you cannot be able to communicate with your parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles simply because you don’t share a common language as the popular saying goes, “you can’t know where to go until you know where you have been”... And for some languages provides that route 

“For this case, the best idea is to be able to communicate in my language and as a little bonus to know other languages to communicate with other people which will be an added advantage if dealing in any business in multicultural or a multilingual market”

We are living in an increasingly globalized world where many cultural subtleties can slide through the cracks as we are trying to comprehend past each other’s different dialects, therefore dipping yourself in a new language means opening the entrance to an entire different culture and the way of viewing the world, and not everything translated is perfectly understood by the audience, but it at times needs cultural contexts.

“Living in the global world and multicultural society is becoming critical more than ever that we have the ability and willingness to interact with different people, all bringing their languages and subtle nuances”  said Gabriel, Los Angeles, English and Spanish.

Some suggestions state that multilingual persons have many personalities, acting differently when speaking in diverse languages. I agree with this suggestion because some words that I know in my language do not exist in other languages, meaning there are different ways of manifestations depending on the language am speaking. “It reminds me that just because am of any tribe, doesn’t mean that I can’t be in touch with people of different cultures and grasp a completely different way of life they are living, and that is very special. 

My last say is to you is that bilingualism or multilingualism is very important but if in any case you cannot cope up with the idea of learning many languages, still you can survive through language translation.