10 Proven Benefits of Learning a Second Language

5. One of the benefits of learning a second language is that it makes you better able to understand your language

Learning a second language helps us realize that one’s native language isn’t the only way to communicate and see the world. Each word in our language is associated with a concept or mental image.

So how does it work? Sometimes there are words in one language that don’t exist in another, which makes us more able to think about a specific word.

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