Some people learn a foreign language for utility, others say this shouldn't be the only reason. Globalization is one of the distinctive traits of today's society. Distant places are becoming increasingly closer due to the improvement of international transports. As places are becoming closer one to the other, the same happens to cultures and ideas. In order to interact with such cultures and understand all these new ideas, people need to communicate and therefore share the same language. Language is a tool that humans have created in order to fulfil a task: make communication simple. Many people nowadays learn a foreign language for this same reason: to be able to share thoughts and experiences. This applies both to people who enjoy doing their vacations abroad and just need to talk with the hotel staff, and to people who work in a foreign environment every day. In order to make this process more efficient, a common, universal language has been chosen: English. In the majority of cases, English alone fulfils the need of communication and it is the only tool you need to interact with the world. However, since humans had spread around the world, each different language has been containing traces of the history of the population that created it. Language has become not only a tool, but also a flag of culture. For this reason, a lot of people learn foreign languages not only to have a tool that helps them to communicate, but also to learn something about the people who speak it and connect with them. In my opinion, languages are powerful tools and, like any other tool, their importance lies in the task that they accomplish. I think that languages should be learned in order to be able to express yourself, not just for the sake of knowing them. Any other reason lies, in my view, in the domain of personal taste. In other words, learning a new language in order to know more about a culture may be interesting and fun, but this is not the reason why people should learn it in the first place.