What are the things encourage you more to learn a foreign language?

Question

I.e. to get a job or to know about a culure or a religion.

Answer 1

fell in love with an italian who broke my heart..

Answer 2

1) Loved one speaks it  (my boyfriend speaks chinese so i learned that for him... haha)

2) Education/Career/Job

3) Cultures and traditions

4) Boredom

(in that order)

Answer 3

For me it was living in NYC and working in restaurants where there are a lot of Spanish speakers.

If you don't know Spanish, they will tease you and ask...

"te gusta leche de penga?"

Trust me, you don't want to say yes to that.

And it is really nice to understand what people are saying in other languages.

Answer 4

1. To be familiar with a language / way of thinking / culture other than my own.

2. Because I love languages, they fascinate me.

3. To be able to talk to a person without using my native language.

Answer 5

Technically, the first one of your options is called "instrumental motivation", and the second one is called "integrative motivation". getting a job is an external drive, and the desire to know the people or the culture of that language/county is an internal drive (stronger than the first one).

Once I started learning English, it was only for getting a job (as a teacher or translator/interpreter), then the integrative motivation entered the arena too.

Now i know (am still learning) a couple of other languages, and for them it is the interest in the culture or people that counts.

Answer 6

Culture and history, in order to understand these better.

Travel. Not just for technical reasons (where, how to, how much etc.) but I find even basic conversational skills enhance a trip tremendously if you reach out to people who are curious.

There's a certain drudgery or meanness in learning a language or skill for a job, a relationship or a college prerequisite.

Answer 7

Boyfriend/girlfriend that is a diffferent nationality that you, work, school (duh), location, friends who speak another language, your own personal heritage/ancestry, and where your car came from...?

Answer 8

Yeah, the significant other speaking it really helps. I also plan to teach it in high school one day, so career-wise it's a good thing. Maybe if you plan to move to a country that has it as its official language.