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Disadvantages Of Learning Another Language

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“This is the language of science, commerce, global politics, aviation, popular music, and above all, the internet,” (Source B). English has been around for many years and well-known worldwide. English speakers need not concern themselves with learning other languages, as speaking in foreign tongues is overly cumbersome, the time can be spent learning more useful skills, and English is spoken worldwide already.
Learning a foreign language to be able to communicate with others is quite useless compared to all the different languages. For example, just learning one extra language doesn’t help when there is so much to take in that the only way an actual difference is made is if you learn all the languages. “There are roughly 6,900 living languages in the world,” (Source B). Overall, demonstrating that what is the point of learning another language when you still cannot communicate with over half the world. Thus, showing how it is not necessary to learn more, but actually a waste of time. Feeling so well when you learned another language, but then realizing it will not help if you like to travel a lot. As well as a waste of time, learning a new language is just so confusing; especially when one word has multiple meanings. “The amount I had to do to be sure I didn’t miss a nuance or cultural cues and didn’t draw conclusions based on erroneous translation, was significant [...]” (Source D). Although every culture is different many are similar and can be really hard to tell which

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