100 reasons to learn a foreign language
2) To communicate with people from other countries
3) To make friends from other countries
5) To find a job or an internship abroad
6) To read books in their original language
7) To watch movies and TV shows with the original voices
8) To understand music in other languages
9) To discover and understand new cultures
10) To understand new words and idioms, which means that you will have new ways of expressing yourself
11) To discover new foods and recipes from all over the world
12) To have more job opportunities
13) To get a better job, with more possibilities
14) To understand the world a bit better
15) To watch the news or read newspapers in another language, so that you can gain other information and see the world from another point of view
16) To learn traditions and customs from other countries
17) To be more open-minded
19) To have a new challenge
20) To avoid illnesses such as Alzheimer or dementia
21) To brag to your friends and family about being bilingual
22) To meet your soulmate from another country
23) To have more youtube content to watch
24) To make your parents / family proud
25) To learn the language of your ancestors
26) To learn the native language of your partner
27) To learn the native language of your best friend
28) To give yourself a reason to watch cartoons
29) To be able to watch Disney movies in different languages
30) To learn more about history, geography and geopolitics
31) To be able to sing in more than one language
32) To raise bilingual children
33) To be able to help lost tourists in your city
34) To be able to ask for help when you’re lost in a foreign city
35) To not have regrets later
36) To be able to read more resources when you’re researching for an essay
37) To become a more interesting person
38) To have something to do in your free time
39) To meet more interesting people
40) To see your culture from another perspective
41) To be a traveler, not a tourist
42) To be able to bargain the prices when you’re traveling
43) To escape from tourist traps
44) To share amazing experiences with the locals
45) To become more creative
46) To read memes from different countries
47) To become a citizen of the world
48) To laugh at how crazy your native language and your native culture is
49) To laugh at how hard your target language is
50) To understand jokes in another language
51) To participate more efficiently and responsively in a multi-cultural world
52) To teach your native language abroad
53) To learn to respect everyone and human nature
54) To appreciate cultural diversity
55) To help immigrants who arrive in your country and don’t speak the language yet
56) To watch sports competitions in another language
57) To understand all the Eurovision’s song
58) To be proud of yourself when you master a new aspect of your target language
59) To appreciate the variations of dialects of a foreign language
60) To get a tattoo in a foreign language
62) To watch Netflix TV shows from other countries
63) To go from hearing random songs to hearing a language you understand
64) To learn how to make new sounds
66) To say a secret out loud to a friend and have no one else understand you
67) To understand people speaking a foreign language on the bus
68) To be more open and tolerant
69) To always have something new to share
70) To become a better version of yourself
71) To say yes to more adventures
72) To learn how to greet people in tons of different ways
73) To talk to your pets in another language
74) To feel like you’re traveling in time
75) To make foreigners feel welcome in your country
76) To learn how to read and write in a foreign alphabet
77) To read street signs in other countries
78) To learn how to swear in another language
79) To help deaf people fit in society it you’re learning a sign language
80) To learn while you’re young
81) To learn while you have time
82) To read poems in their original language
83) To have people tell you that you have a cute accent
84) To become an inspiration for other language learners
85) To speak more languages than your friends and family
86) To stand out from the crowd
87) To help save an endangered language
88) To learn more about linguistics
90) To help people who are struggling with your native language or target languages
91) To translate crazy phrases on Duolingo
92) To talk with kids who don’t speak your native language
93) Because learning languages is an epic adventure
94) Because so many languages will sound good to your ears
96) Because it’s rewarding
97) Because the language learning community is amazing
98) Because there’s no reason not to learn languages
99) Because you won’t regret it
100) Because you don’t actually need a reason
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