Language learning: reasons and benefits

Learning another language can broaden your horizons because you discover books and ideas from other countries.

My exchange visit broadened my horizons: I saw that school life could be organised very differently.

Ordering food in English helped me build my confidence: I realised I could manage without my teacher.

Successful conversations can build your confidence and make you more willing to speak to someone new.

English helps me communicate with people from other countries when we work together on an online school project.

On our exchange, I used English to communicate with people from other countries and ask about their daily lives.

I hope language learning will help me develop mental flexibility so I can approach unfamiliar problems in different ways.

Trying to explain an idea with words I already know is one way I work to develop mental flexibility.

English helps me gain access to information about science that is not yet available in Russian.

I gained access to information about foreign universities by learning to read their course descriptions.