After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
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More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!
Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.
The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself.
I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.
Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.
We've got so many different cultural groups in my family that I've had to learn to accommodate them in different ways. My father speaks different to my mum. My mum speaks different to my grandmother. Everybody speaks different, so you find you start tweaking your language to be more accessible to people.
When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.
I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.
Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.
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