Improve your thinking: Studying a new language improves analytical and informative ability. Research has shown that math and verbal SAT scores climb higher with each additional year of foreign language study, which means that the longer you study a foreign language, the stronger your skills become.
Keep your mind healthy: Learning a second language has been proven to delay the onset of dementia.
Improve your concentration and listening skills: When learning a new language, you are forced to listen with intense concentration for extended periods of time, thus improving your concentration and listening skills.
Increase native language and cultural ability: Research shows that knowledge of other languages boosts students’ understanding of languages in general and enables people to use their native language more effectively. Knowing another language and culture affords you the unique opportunity of seeing yourself and your own culture from an outside perspective. This gives you full appreciation of your own culture and language.
Increase employability: With more companies going global, there is a higher need for people who speak multiple languages. Such people are also given preference during official travel over others.
Learn new cultures: While learning a new language, you also learn the associated culture which opens your mind to different points of view and allow you to grow personally. This also allows you to enjoy international music, films and literature whose context can never be captured in translated versions.
New friends: Knowing other languages effectively increases the number of people on the globe with whom you can communicate. Your ability to speak other languages and your interest in other cultures can connect you deeply with people around the globe.