Advantages of to be multilingual As a learner in foreign languages, I have been wondering how learn and speak several languages can be enriching. At first, one of the main reason I started to be interested in languages was because of my wish to better understand how our world. Indeed, learning a language is also often learn about differents cultures than ours, differents way of thinking, dicscover new way of looking at things, and make us more open-minded. Speaking several languages is also a formidable thing which permit to communicate and make friends with many people from different walks of life, which is possible thanks to new technology. In a world which globalization takes up an more and more important place, it seems obvious that multilingualism is also an important professional asset. Finally, recent scientific studies shows that learning languages enhance cognitive capacities, memory and creativity. It is even proven that it helps to set back disease like Alzheimer's.