The importance of learning new languages All of us have heard the reasons to learn languages, specifically English, if you are in business, but the reality is that learning new languages is more than get a better job, learning languages opens you new perspectives to approach life and new perspectives to see things. When you are learning a new language, you are studying also the customs and culture of the people from the language belongs. For example, every single people of the world have a sentence to say "This day is beautiful", but each one has different sounds, etymologies and even expressions to say it. For western languages whose peoples are located at different latitudes, such as Spanish, Portuguese, French and English it is very interesting because people use different phrases to say something depending on its latitude. I think also that learning an Asian language, it is very important for every single person on the west because it could help to open your mind even more by studying its etymology and alphabets, it implies to get new ideas of the world, and if you are in business and social sciences, get new ideas of the world results means more probability of success. Learning English it is important, but believe me, every single culture of the world would rather hire someone who speaks it native language than another one who doesn't