Language learning boosts your studies and your brain.
Language & Academics
No matter what you major in, language learning can bolster your academic trajectory by cultivating essential skills.
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Skills developed in language classes—e.g., analytical thinking, critical thinking, communication—are vital and transferable to other disciplines (not to mention ranked as important by US employers).
- Knowing multiple languages can improve other essential skills for your academic journey, such as attention to detail, focus, memory, decision-making, and creativity.
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Speaking a second language can broaden your access to primary sources when conducting research. Having started study of a language is also considered a basic requirement for entrance to certain kinds of graduate programs.
- Learning a new language can improve the languages you already know.
Language & Your Mind
The science is clear: multilingualism yields multiple benefits for your brain, no matter when you start learning a new language.
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Knowing more than one language is linked to stronger later-life cognitive abilities and a later onset of cognitive decline, even for people who learn a second language as adults.
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Multilingualism promotes creativity and boosts memory, focus and decision making.