English as a second language

Everyone has been up to compete with the global standards.  These standards reflect the needs of the world, for which a few mediums reign to fit.  Considered to be part of these elite mediums is English.  Hence, learning English as a second language has become the norm.

Learning languages hasn’t been any stranger for most; in fact, for a lot, learning another language is imperative.  Moreover, learning another tongue, just like English as a second language, is a symbol for academic advancement.

An advancement indeed, learning to use another language has been a means to another nation, a nation both different and similar to those learning it.  It is also an indisputable edge over another.  In a simple illustration, if one employer is faced by the dilemma of hiring an employee, which will he choose?  One that has good work and education background, or one who has similar background to the first, except for an increment skill in foreign language proficiency?

Of course, the employer will choose the one with the most number of skills, same as the analogy of “bigger or more is better.”  Learning another language, say English as a second language also reflects a good number of image enhancing adjectives:

i. It exudes discipline.  To learn something, one has to surrender to conventions (of said discipline) and trust the discipline that lies behind the lesson.

ii. It depicts willingness to learn.  One already knows the native tongue; yet, this one did not stop the language learning there and instead, immerse in another dimension of language education.

iii. It carries an outward-looking individual.  To learn another language, one goes to greater lengths of poking at another world (in contrast to self-contained).

Foreign languages have surprises in store for the learner: one never knows when it could come handy.