knowledge of various languages both wealth and power of body language of other languages
Are you still doubting that reading is very beneficial to your everyday life? If you are, don’t do it any more! If you aren’t, try to continue your work. But what kinds of things can you get to know from reading?
Firstly, you can get so much information and knowledge from reading. Let me refine it.
Learning Mandarin is not the as hard as most people will tell you. I know because I have done it. The people that say it is near impossible have failed, not because it is impossible, but perhaps because they thought it was impossible, or perhaps because the way that they tried to learn Mandarin was too boring, too inefficient or too unfocused. I will now identify the three greatest barriers to making learning Mandarin interesting, efficient and targeted, and explain my view on how to overcome each.
To illustrate my point I would like to make an analogy to modern medicine. Twenty to thirty years ago doctors used to only treat the stomach if a patient complained about stomach pains. Today there is not partition of systems when treating a patient. Medicine has recognized that the body is interconnected in a way that pure determinism can never hope to capture. If a patient comes in today and complains of stomach pains, one of the first five questions a doctor asks is whether they are busy at work, the reason being that the number one cause of stomach problems
English is a language that is used nowadays internationally. For all of us, we have millions of reasons to learn this language. Of course, most probably those reasons are for practical purposes. But for English, I have a special feeling.
It is not that I use English to speak, or to work everyday, but that it can give some kind of pleasure.