Expand your business and educational skillset

It’s time to learn a new language!

Expand your business and educational skillset.

It’s time to learn a new language!

Whether for business or pleasure learning a second language can be challenging. You are actually training your brain to do something much more complex than memorising new words and their proper pronunciations. You’re expanding your thought capability, in more ways than one. However, Learning a second language opens up a ton of career opportunities.

Today, we live in globalized business environment, and knowing a second language is an ability that will differentiate you from the crowd. More companies than ever are doing business in several – often dozens of – countries around the world. Efficient and effective communication among multiple languages is an indispensable tool for relationship and business building, and furthermore, financial success. The benefits of being able to communicate with overseas clients, suppliers and buyers are huge and even in small, local companies, chances are that the ability to speak a second language will set you apart from other applicants.

It’s clear to understand that developing deeper relationships with your clients that speak the same language leads to alternative ways of conducting business that may not have been an option before. This way, relationships can develop and grow in a deeper and more personal level as well as on a business level, allowing you to be able to go on for example social outing with potential partners and have a conversation without the slow aid of a translator. 

As well as building relationships with clients by being bilingual you may become indispensable at your company. You act as a bridge that can connect and reduce the gap between the two companies and their individual cultures, therefore allowing the interaction to become more fluent and genuine. 

Knowing a second language opens doors to a whole new world of companies. Anyone interested in expanding their cultural experience and work for an international company will benefit because speaking multiple languages increases one’s marketability.

On a more social aspect when travelling to a country with a language that’s not native to your tongue, translation apps are helpful, but only to a certain extent. They enable you to decipher a menu, but not necessarily to spark up a conversation with your server. Fluency in the local language makes for far more discovery potential and understanding a new culture. Why not learn German from beginner to advanced level? A language school in Berlin allows you to immerse yourself in the native culture, with teachers who will drive, motivate and excite you to learn the language whilst learning a lifetime educational skill. Teaching in small groups they focus on an interactive, conversation - based learning experience.

Learning a new language has health benefits too… it is certainly good for your brain. No matter how old you are. Memory improvement, longer attention span, and a reduced risk of age-related cognitive decline, are just a few of the known positive effects of speaking two or more languages.

Multitasking comes more naturally and attention improves for those who learn to speak a second language. Learning a language improves listening skills - In a way that few other things do.

Learning a language forces people to listen carefully, which is a true benefit in its own right, as well as allowing you to be more open minded, which will benefit you as much in entrepreneurial pursuits as it will in your personal life. It can enhance your perspective. After all, learning a language is about living the language. It’s also about discovering a population, culture and belief system that are all different from your own.

Poppy Watt