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by sandesp 3500 days ago
I came from several not-so-famous languages to learning English and I am not the right specimen for your questions. However, I wanted to say that learning a completely different language has changed my understanding of what communication is. I started understanding how spoken words are just tags to ascribe abstract ideas that both the speaker and the listener can relate to. At the same time, there are parts of the communication that gets lost and that's why people are not completely understood-something quite common in the internet. Learning a language can help bridge that gap in communication and most importantly, help an individual get a better perspective of the culture the said language is attached to. Because, as it is repeatedly said most of the human communication happens through body-language and tone alone which is only possible in a face-to-face interaction with good attention and focus from both parties.