Benefits of learning a

Foreign Language
Luis Eduardo Vargas Cadenas
Holy Roman Empire

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“To have another
language is to possess
a second soul.”

- Charles the great

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Most Spoken Languages in the
world

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Benefits from learning
foreign languages

1. Cognitive

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 1.
Cognitive Benefits
Let’s start with the first

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Helps delay Neurological disorders

▷ Alzheimer
▷ Dementia

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 648 seniors
With various forms of dementia and literacy evaluated.

60%
Who speaks two or more languages

Delay
4.5 Years
Bilingualism delays age at onset of dementia, independent of education and
immigration status
Suvarna Alladi, Thomas H. Bak, Vasanta Duggirala, BapirajuSurampudi,
Neurology Nov 2013 8
Did you know…
Just 2 out of 10 mexican teenagers comprehend
what they read?

Mexicanos Primero. (2013). Informe Anual 2013 MP. Retrieved from

http://www.mexicanosprimero.org/images/recursos/informes_anuales/2013/Inform
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eAnual2013MP.pdf
Boost your concentration and
comprehesion

▷ Multilinguals perform better on tests

of reading comprehension,
vocabulary, and also maths

Adesope, O. O., Lavin, T., Thompson, T., & Ungerleider, C. (2010). A

Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Cognitive Correlates
of Bilingualism.

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 Bilingual Babies

Bilingual Monolingual

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R E A D I N G C O MP R E H E S I O N MA T H E MA T I C S

Adesope, O. O., Lavin, T., Thompson, T., & Ungerleider, C. (2010). A

Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Cognitive Correlates
of Bilingualism.

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 2.
Cultural Benefits
Get immerse in other cultures

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 “
“Can we shift something as
fundamental as what we like and
dislike by changing the language
in which our preferences are
elicited?”

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Our attitudes are quite mailable
Due to factors as language, Take the Implicit
Association Test for instance, a Test where
participants rapidly categorize words that flash
on a computer screen or are played through
headphones. The test gives participants only a
fraction of a second to categorize words, not
enough to think about answers.

Change languages, shift responses. (2018). Retrieved from

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/11/change-languages-shift-
responses/

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Look at this pictures

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 “Getting immerse in the
culture…”

Jack Ma Jack Ma The Authorized Biography by his Assistant (Founder

and Ceo of the Alibaba Group)

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 3.
Proffesional Benefits
Go ahead for oportunities

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Internet vs IRL

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 Rewardings

▷ To learn a foreign language

not just help you to get a
better job, but increses
considerably your gainings

53% of job vacancies Requires an

who offer salaries up advanced level
to $65k pesos of English

According to OCC Mundial november 2014.

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 “
❝If you talk to a man in a language he
understands, that goes to his head. If you
talk to him in his own language, that goes
to his heart.❞
‒Nelson Mandela

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Thanks!
Any questions?

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