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Why you should learn English
Since you’re going to spend so much time learning English, it is important that you be aware of the reasons for so doing. It’s all a question of enhancing and sustaining your motivation. What follows is a list of the most interesting reasons.
• Yearly income $6 000 higher on average for bilingual people (reference): multiply that by 35 work years and it comes to $210 000; when you factor in the interest on the money, it totals close to $1 million)
• The value of a university degree, over the course of a lifetime, is estimated at 1 million $ (other sources: source 1; source 2)
• Better job opportunities (source)
• Builds more grey matter in the language parts of the brain (source)
• Higher creativity and better problem solving ability (source)
• Delay in the onset of dementia (source 1)
• Slows the aging process of the brain (source 1, source 2, source 3)
• Better understanding of cultural differences and a more open mind (source)
• Access to a greater body of knowledge (source)
• Greater ease in travelling; English has official or special status in at more than seventy five countries (source)
• Add 5 years to life expectancy with a university degree (source (PDF))
• Readiness to the era of globalization; a third of world population will soon be speaking English (source) and English is already the international science and business language (source)
• More sex-appeal: those who speak a foreign language are more popular with the opposite sex.
ESL | François Guité