worldof20something

So you’ve always made little comments here and there about how it would ‘be nice to learn a new language.’  But the language isn’t going to just teach itself to you - it’s time to take action. 

 If you’re like me, you might have taken a couple of Spanish classes during high school or college, but most of the time those classes just aren’t enough - and if you don’t get any practice after the classes, your foreign vocabulary tends to shrink pretty quickly as the years go by.  Getting back into it may seem like a chore, and maybe it was; but now it doesn’t have to be.

Several games have been released that will help you freshen up on your foreign language skills or even learn a new language from scratch.  If you own a Nintendo DS (the most recent version of the Gameboy) then you’re in luck!  Games such as My Spanish Coach, My French Coach, My Chinese Coach, and my Japanese Coach make it easy and fun to learn a language.  If you’re familiar with Ebay, you may be able to snag a copy for under $25.

Knowing more than one language has many benefits: you’ll come across as a more worldly person to your peers, you’ll have an extra skill that makes you more likely to be hired than other candidates for a job, and you’ll be able to communicate with people in different countries if you go traveling (and not have to be paranoid that they are talking smack about you without you being able to understand).  Who would have thought that you could gain all of these things by playing a handheld game?

Now that learning a language has become so fun, you really have no excuse!  Start learning that language - I promise you won’t regret it!

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