Your Inspiration What is your Inspiration for learning a second (2nd) third (3rd) ... language? How did you start learning a second language? A lot of us played some type of video game as we were growing up. Personally one of my favorites was developed in Japan. As I grew up I started to realize that I was more interested in games that were developed in Japan versus games developed in the USA. Some people think of learning a language as getting 1 book in your language and the same book in another language. Compare the 2 and you can start to get some understanding of the foreign language. I wanted to play games that were never translated to English so I would import them from overseas (Japan, Europe, China), download the entire script in English and the foreign language and play through the game. I did not learn a whole lot that way but it was the early thing that got me fascinated in other cultures at such a young age. I found a good article you can find it on google by searching "pdf Seven hundred reasonsfor studying languages" The first result is the article. It covers not only the most popular 7 reasons for someone to learn another language but also how learning other languages has an inpact on the entire world.