Why is learning another language important to learning about other people, cultures, and nations?
Learning another language is one true way to get into a different culture’s mindset. It’s fine to study a culture from your native point of view, reading books on, or seeing videos, or things that can enliven your experience. But to actually get into the skin of a different culture through the language, it just opens up doors and cracks open world views that you really can’t understand until you actually try to learn a language in that deep of a manner. It really does also aid in higher critical thinking skills. There’s a certain degree of perseverance and desire to learn something as difficult as a foreign language, [it] teaches kids’ skills on very many levels in terms of global perspectives of the world.
