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Effects of learning Languages
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. A bilingual person is more than one person. Whenever we are learning a new language, it means that we have started a new life with a different vision. If we learn a language, we understand much about culture or life of a country. If we know one language we are one person, if we know two languages, we are two people. As an instance; if there is a job vacancy that requires two people knowing two languages and you know two languages, then you are qualified for that job. Learning a new language seems like we are starting a new journey toward our future life. I am always passionate about learning a new language, and when I start learning a new language everything is changed.
Firstly, I was the only one in my family who started learning a new language in early ages. Without knowing Dari, which in my native language, I had started learning Urdu. When I was living in Pakistan, I was having to learn Urdu to go to school. My first journey headed for …show more content…

When I was learning English, I used to watch lots of English movies, and Korean dramas. When I completed upper-intermediate levels in English, I started teaching in a language academy in Kabul. During my teaching experience at that academy, there was a colleague of mine who was also too interested in Korean language. Korean language was certainly totally different from English and Urdu, but somehow we are able to communicate with each other in Urdu. The funny thing was that the others were not able to understand us, when we told jokes in Korean. Since I knew Korean a bit, I was invited to the Korean Embassy to study a one-month Korean language course for free. I went there to study Korean and later the Embassy employed me for an organization named Central Statistics organization

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