I speak 3 languages: English Bengali and Hindi.
I understand and also speak, though slowly: Arabic, French and Telugu. I enjoy Telugu films, French songs and Arabic conversations.
I want to learn Japanese and Chinese in future.
I want to be a polyglot so that I am exposed to various cultures and thoughts.
Love and acceptance grows through learning. Humour comes through broken experience. There us nothing to be ashamed of speaking a language incorrectly. Humour evokes from mistakes. We should enjoy the effect of speaking foreign languages incorrectly.
To demean someone for making mistakes is incorrect.
Understanding a variety of languages improves one’s vocabulary or power of expression.
Language of the powerful will always be treated as a dominant force and likely raise suspicion in the minds of the people To mitigate such suspicion cultural values should be learnt through the new language.
We should remember that language ys a medium of expression. How many people have derived pleasure after reading Tagore’s poem Gitanjali!
How many broken people have gained strength after listening to Gloria Gaynor’s song “I’ll survive”.
Learn as much you can if you have time and resource.
Jagoran 