Why Study a Foreign Language

There are so many reasons to learn a foreign language!

Think about how many more movies you could see and the newspapers and books you could read if you learned another language!  Give yourself a competitive edge in the global job market and expand your horizons as you learn about other cultures.

• "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new lands but in seeing with new eyes."    
  Marcel Proust
• "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world." Ludwig Wittgenstein
• "Internationalism does not mean the end of individual nations. Orchestras don't mean the end of violins." Golda Meir
• “Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”
  Goethe
• How Foreign Language Study Can Enhance Career Possibilities [PDF]