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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPoll: Want a happy life, healthy brain, and be viewed as sexy? Learn a 2nd language
(CNN) - Want greater success in your career and your love life, as well as a healthy brain long into old age?
The answer could be to learn another language.
Or at least that's the case according to a majority of Americans and Britons polled in a new survey by language app Babbel.
Apparently, 71% of Americans and 61% of Britons believe speaking more than one language makes a person seem more attractive.
Oui, c'est vrai!
Of 3,000 English-speakers polled in the US and the UK, nine out of 10 admitted they'd learn a new language in pursuit of love.
About half said they'd dreamed about a romance with someone from another country.
And moving from the bedroom to boardroom, about one in four Americans and Britons think that being monolingual has held them back professionally.
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"Languages not only enable you to expand yourself in terms of perspective and skillset, but they also open doors and help you better understand other cultures and peoples," Miriam Plieninger, director of didactics at Babbel, tells CNN.
"Knowing another language helps to break barriers and to connect on a special level of mutual understanding; be it while on the street, traveling, or in business."
Globally, more than half the world can speak at least two languages -- but Western English-speakers are lagging behind.
The answer could be to learn another language.
Or at least that's the case according to a majority of Americans and Britons polled in a new survey by language app Babbel.
Apparently, 71% of Americans and 61% of Britons believe speaking more than one language makes a person seem more attractive.
Oui, c'est vrai!
Of 3,000 English-speakers polled in the US and the UK, nine out of 10 admitted they'd learn a new language in pursuit of love.
About half said they'd dreamed about a romance with someone from another country.
And moving from the bedroom to boardroom, about one in four Americans and Britons think that being monolingual has held them back professionally.
----
"Languages not only enable you to expand yourself in terms of perspective and skillset, but they also open doors and help you better understand other cultures and peoples," Miriam Plieninger, director of didactics at Babbel, tells CNN.
"Knowing another language helps to break barriers and to connect on a special level of mutual understanding; be it while on the street, traveling, or in business."
Globally, more than half the world can speak at least two languages -- but Western English-speakers are lagging behind.
http://www.local10.com/lifestyle/bilinguals-are-more-attractive-say-71-of-americans
The poll showed that Britons and American both believe French is the sexiest language. According to the poll, Russian is believed to be the hardest language to learn, followed by German.
Scientists also say that learning a new language in adulthood may even have physiological benefits. Some studies actually show growth of the brain and others say there may even be a reduction in the risk of diseases like Alzheimer's.
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Poll: Want a happy life, healthy brain, and be viewed as sexy? Learn a 2nd language (Original Post)
davidn3600
Sep 2016
OP
rurallib
(62,416 posts)1. got anything easier? Like something where I can take one pill a day
and be the sexiest man alive?
hunter
(38,313 posts)2. Especially Klingon...
beHomDunawIjtIqaDunavaD ghureghqangqamoHlaHqubetaHa SomrawameynawIje?
Is it not that my many, large, scattered muscles are quite capable of swelling for the benefit of the hearts of many scattered girls?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language
safeinOhio
(32,684 posts)3. Still working
On the first one.
dembotoz
(16,806 posts)4. i am learning spannish via the duolingo app
gotta learn how to order with all those taco trucks
seems to be going ok so far
and it is free and self paced and it is free
did i say it was free?