Why learn French or more languages?
Why learn French?
Here is some personal reason why I should learn French first:
1. I've met too many French or people around me who speaks French since 2008. 2. I've too many university mate who is French. 3. I've some French client past 5 years and they appreciated my design and concept. 4. French is a lovely language make me feel like speaking singing at the same time and it is romantic. 5. Since 2009, my uni-mate Antoine give me lot of French movie in the university, and I promised him I'll learn French.
And I posted some fact I found below, get some interesting feedback from my friend:
Je parle un peu français..
French distinguishes between tu (familiar) and vous (formal/plural). French is the largest donor of foreign words in English, it is spoken as a native language in more than two dozen countries on five continents.
It is the second most commonly taught second language in the world (after English), making it a real possibility that speaking French will come in handy.
In 2003, the United States was France’s leading investor, accounting for 25% of the new jobs created in France from foreign investment. There are 2,400 US companies in France generating 240,000 jobs. American companies with offices in France include IBM, Microsoft, Mattel, Dow Chemical, SaraLee, Ford, Coca-Cola, AT&T, Motorola, Johnson & Johnson, Ford, and Hewlett Packard.
France is the second leading investor in the United States: more than 3,000 French companies have subsidiaries in the US and generate some 700,000 jobs, including Mack Trucks, Zenith, RCA-Thomson, Bic, and Dannon.
French is the 3rd most frequently spoken non-English language in US homes and the second most commonly taught foreign language in the United States (after Spanish).
French is ranked the 2nd most influential language in the world.
http://french.about.com/od/francophonie/a/whylearnfrench_2.htm
Also, these are the creative video to learn a foreign language which i think is worth to check it out.
Why learn more languages?
Started from 2007, I spent my time in TamKang University to learn Mandarin and it was a fun experience to learn Chinese with foreign student, my classmate from German, America, Canada, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Japan. It is definitely a culture shock for me and it was one of my fun experience in life!
I think 2008 is my most international year ever, after become a full time student in National Chiao Tung University.
2008 New NCTU international student
Sometime I appreciated other people who record and write about something you don’t realize or care about, recently I find these people pretty inspiring and worth to check out how they respect the culture and foreign languages. And so far i think this guy did a pretty good job!
http://www.fluentin3months.com/about/
http://www.fluentin3months.com/
Benny Lewis – Fluent in Three Months – Rapid Language Hacking
Polyglot tour of flat in 8 languages and 6 dialects
Some other interesting people worth to check it out.
A fun channel about westerner VS oriental
Gangway
Caboose
a la mode
Five finger discourt
beater
visit the can
pacifier
douche
rag baby
blacktop
horse sense
butterface- this is the most funniest.
Aubergine- eggplant
Bogey
Chav- a young lower-class person who behaves badly and wears designer clothes (usually fake).
Chuffed- Pleased, delighted. I am chuffed!
Flapjack-
Faff- to muck about, wasting time doing something not necessary. (I’ve been faffing about all day with my car)
Numpty- Stupid person
Humpty Dumpty
Spiffing- Very posh and dated word meaning excellent, especially as used by upper-class toffs and rugger buggers. (He’s a spiffing bloke)
Slash
Nosh- There was lots of nosh at the party
Fit- Sexy
Winkle- An alternative word for penis mainly used by parents when talking to their children.”Andrew, stop touching your winkle!”
So what i will do is start from French! Understand the culture and speak everyday! Although i still have many languages need to pick up and the 3 months 1 language is good idea to learn a new language.
