What is the best thing about being Bi-lingual or knowing more than one language?

Question

it gives me a secret language that i know others won't understand.the language i speak is rare so i know i am safe to say what i want.so how about you?

Answer 1

The best thing about being multi-lingual is the opportunities it opens up. By speaking other languages I can travel to foriegn countries and don't have to worry about lugging around a dictionary that isn't really going to help a great deal or finding a translator. It also offers the possability of additional job opportunities both nationally and abroad.

Also, when I get angry, I slip into another language and I can rant all I like without saying anything that will cause problems later. Even if I call my boss foul names at my desk, my office mate doesn't speak any language except English (barely) so has no idea what I'm saying.

Answer 2

The best part about being bi-lingual is traveling to other countries. You can go to a taxi, and you can go where you want to go, not where the tourist group is going to take you.

My favorite experience is the cruise to Mexico. My mother spoke Spanish fluently, that we never went on the tour. Instead, we got taxi. My mother offer $80 dollars to take us around the city, tell us the history, take us to the best places for beautiful beach view, and take us to your favorite bakery. My mother asked what is his favorite or his family's favorites. Then we pay $20 bakery and give to him the food for his family. Then each of us had gotten ourselves one, and always tasted the best bakery in town.

The tour group would charge approximately $60 per person. There is four of us. The tour group would not take us to the best place, no beach view, no real family's history, no good bakery, and nothing but more to pay.

Answer 3

It quite literally gives me a different point of view. When I think about something in French, my thoughts are quite different than when I think in English. And when I think in Spanish, they are different again. It certainly broadens your outlook, and I believe it gives you more tolerance as well.
It's also a lot of fun being able to underestand foreign movies without having to read the sub titles and miss out on all the action going on above the titles.
Your language sounds exotic. What is it?

Answer 4

I feel the same way too!!

But as all my friends are all bilingual due to our education system, I only get this advantage when I learned a third language.

Knowing more than one language allows me to receive more information and differing views.

Answer 5

For me it has given me a career that I absolutely love. I am a black man but I speak fluent spanish. I operate a business that the clientele is 90% spanish speaking thus making me a totally unique for in my work community.

Answer 6

You can communicate better with everybody.
I speak English, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian and Spanish. It's helpful.

Answer 7

The English word "bilingual" literally means "having two tongues." Bilingual people should be allowed to eat twice as much as monolingual people.

Answer 8

Comes in handy when you get a job, makes you more marketable.

I can talk about people without them knowing it if someone else knows the same language. hehe.

Answer 9

It acquaints the speaker with different oganizational principle in language, and thereby with different modes of thinking.

Answer 10

and u can understand what ppl are saying about u or what is being said. its great to be bi-lingual its even better to be tri-ligual