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ADVANTAGES OF BEING MONOLINGUAL PLUS

This creates a powerful link between people from different countries as well as increasing a person’s sense of self-esteem when communicating with other people. When a person speaks our native language, we tend to have a liking for them. Due to a wider cultural experience, there is a greater tolerance and open-mindedness of differences in creeds and customs. Multilingualism offers an access and exposure to different cultures. Needless to say, they do not face difficulties in communication whilst in a foreign country. It gives them a deeper knowledge of different ideas and traditions. They can understand and appreciate literature in various languages. Multlinguals enjoy reading and writing in different languages. They find it quite easy to learn and speak any new languages. Multilingual individuals tend to show higher performance in examinations and tests as well. Being versed in more than one language, gives people the benefit of better understanding. Multlingual people have a better thinking capability.

Having a variety of options when cussing.Being multilingual has a positive effect on intellectual growth of a person as well.

Obviously, being able to speak about people in elevators without them knowing what’s said.

In India, multilingualism starts becoming impressive if the language count’s above like five or something. Only when I have to verbalize my ideas, I have to use a language.

It gave me an understanding that ‘thoughts’ don’t come into my head in a language at all.

The fact that I can fully understand and communicate in another language (Afrikaans) makes me feel good.

It gives me patience and understanding for those who want to articulate, but have difficulty conveying what they really mean.

That I can talk wine with twice as many ppl.

Being more tolerant-new language = new culture, new and different perspectives/access to more information.

It feels as if I can switch into two different modes and think from different perspectives.

Always useful to be a little less ignorant. Also the connections with culture, history, and the knowledge acquired.

I appreciate the cognitive advantages being multilingual has offered.

Being fluent in a couple of other languages has given me insight into other ways of seeing the world.

ADVANTAGES OF BEING MONOLINGUAL PLUS

The freedom to access different cultures plus the possibility to read many authors in original version!.Just before writing this article, I asked my amazing Facebook and Twitter people the following question: 'If you are bi- or multi-lingual, what do you most value about that fact?'

‘To have another language’ said Charlemagne ‘is to have another soul’. ‘Who’s your favourite writer?’ ‘What do you want to eat for dinner?’ ‘Shall we break all the rules?’ Ask a question in one language, and you get one answer ask the same question in another language, and you might get a different one. For example, they completed ‘Real friends should…’ with ‘…help each other’ in Japanese, but ‘…be frank’ in English. In the 1960s, Susan Ervin-Tripp asked Japanese-English bilingual women to finish sentences in each language, and found that the women came up with very different endings depending on whether they were speaking English or Japanese. As I argue in my new book, Hypersanity: Thinking Beyond Thinking, many bilingual people feel that the way they are, and the way they see the world-and even the way they laugh and love-changes according to the language that they are speaking. Being bilingual may have important cognitive and economic benefits, but it is usually the personal, social, and cultural benefits that multilingual people are most keen to emphasize.