really helpful. I use it all the time, and have promoted it widely among all my friends at

evening class. Here in the UK learning a second language was never taken seriously. Now I’m

in my thirties, I realise that with Europe on my doorstep and some truely wonderful cultures,

food and countryside right here, I want to explore. The only way to this with an amount of

success is to become fluent in European languages. My job revolves around figurework, and so

learning a second language forces my brain to work in quite a different way and I am sure that

this exercise is also improving my English, well I know it has helped with my grammar. One day

I hope to own a little place in southern france and be able to become part of the community….

Thanks Laura for putting together a website that make revision and understanding all those

important little words so much easier.

I was little was always impressed w/those who speak more than one. I look at them in

fascination wondering how do they do that so easily. As I am getting back into studying

different languages I’m also starting to appreciate my own, English. That’s why I love all

these language sites Laura has put up. I saw recently one which teaches English from a French

student’s perspective which is entirely cool b/c it’s another way for me to cement the

differences b/w the 2 as well as give me a refresher on English grammatics. I’m also studying

Spanish so eventually I’ll be checking out the Spanish version of learning English.

I

just recently too realized that not every one in the whole wide world cares a/b learning other

languages. It was hard to for me to wrap my mind around this b/c how could they not at least

secretly want to? I guess it’s different strokes and I’m sure there are plenty of things I

am definitely not interested in that others would find impossible to understand why not.

Indeed there are a lot proverbs in French which are very similar to those in Chinese.

Thank you Laura! Merci beaucoup!

learning a second language. I currenrly live incolombia (apparentlymy spanish studies have

escalated out of control) and anyone here who speaks asercond laguage is almost guaranteed a

good job. This would apply to North America as well. Also if one travels in a a country where

their second language is used it is usually cheaper and more fun togo to “non-tourist

restaurants.
Simply put, a complete education should include fluency in at least two

languages.

French language site which is very much appreciated. I am an intermediate level student of

French and have found your site invaluable. I regularly tell fellow students about it. (It

is amazing to me that more students don’t know about it! Even the teachers very often are not

aware of it.)

I was sorry that in your recent survey on the French site there was
no

category for why I want to study French. Yes, French is a beautiful sounding language, but

what keeps me going is the effort to understand another society – in this case the French

society. I want to have an intimate understanding of at least one other society, and I think

that is best done if one speaks the language. I am interested in what happens to a society

when socialism is embrassed as much as it is in France. Is their society really happier,

better off etc. as the Left in the U.S. would have one believe? Is their national health

insurance working well for them? How does the political structure work? What were the riots

about? (When I see their Televison News – TV5 Monde – I realize, from other sources like the

Internet, that that form of news is no more reliable than television news in the States.) Is

there a French sense of humor that is substantially different than American humor? Is there

systemic anti-Americanism in France as Bernard Henri Levy recently stated in an interview? If

it exists, what is behind it?

The bottom line is that learning another language expands

my world. And thank you again for a wonderful site.

understand any argument against it. That’s all I can say:)!

and Italian fluently. My mother language is Maltese. I am fascinated by languages, they open up

new worlds especially through culture. I have a hard time trying to convince my students that

learning French is worthwhile. They think English is quite enough, which isn’t saying much

since we’re bilingual.

you,even many of my friends do not understand as to why am i learning french they keep on

asking me as how am i gonna profit money wise by learning french,but what they do not realise

is that there can be some other motivation the money in learning a language and i completely

agree with the reasons that you have listed, it very true. I hope many more will agree with our

opinions