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Learning A Language: The Heart of Communication

by Kevin Bates

"You cannot not, communicate." This goes without saying. In our ever day lives, we communicate with each other by any means possible. Whether it's verbal or not isn't the case because everything that we do is a way of reaching out to others. Still, the most common form of making contact with others is using words uttered by the mouth. For that reason, our daily interaction with each other is a good reason for learning a language.

For centuries, our civilization had encountered a lot of unnecessary bickering and distraught. They often brand race or social status as the main cause but perhaps, there's more to it than meets the eye. Everyone is the same after all. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or even yellow(Caucasians) and it's doesn't matter if you're rich or poor. That's why sometimes, others are led into the thinking that maybe it's the language barrier that's causing all the trouble.

Finding out good ways to reach out to people is the core of learning a language. It's just not through speaking though as there are other ways to breach a gap. Sure, understanding others by word of mouth is a good thing, but it's better to understand them in broader horizons. Being able to know the language in the most verbal sense will allow you to simply understand what the other is saying, but to understand it in a broader perspective will often help to understand the true meaning between the languages itself. Therefore in order to advance to this level though, speaking their tongue is important.

You don't need a concrete reason to learn a language; you learn it because it's necessary. It helps in making us realize our good points and our faults. It helps us understand other people more in sense of their traditions and the world they move in. If we are adept in their own fields, then there's nothing to stop us from being friends with anyone. Language lets us learn different aspects in other people's lives. Just by talking in their own tongue we are able to comfort people. By getting to know them better, we learn to understand what they are and most importantly who they really are despite the misunderstandings. In the long run, we end up seeing the potential that we have in order to live a peaceful coexistence.

Learning a language can be very hard, but it's also very rewarding. Baby steps should be practiced when waking down this path. Being able to understand people doesn't happen overnight and has a constant process to be looked out for but with a little bit of perseverance anything can be achieved. And by the end of it all, surely we'll be able to live a peaceful life with one another.

Learning a language is essential for human beings. Without grasping it, we wont be able to harness the use of communication fully.

Published January 26th, 2011

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