Multilingual

To have another language that you speak helps to make you more diverse in society. Knowing another language and being able to speak it well helps. When you are able to communicate with someone that does not speak the same language as you it reaches the goals of a majority of the colleges in the United States. A vast majority of colleges have a language requirement in order to graduate. This requirement ensures that unless you are exempt you must be able to reach a 200 level course in a language other than English. Since the United States has so many immigrants who speak a different language it make being able to be language diverse such a valuable skill. In Amanda’s groups article the show the value to be multilingual. In today’s society it is not acceptable to say that you took a language but forgot it. Because, in modern society there is so much diversity. Economically speaking it also looks better on a job resume that one would be knowledgeable in a language other than their native language. Although most college students do complain about having to take a language. This skill is valuable and they will be thankful for it in the long run. The most common language taken is Spanish because a lot of people in the United States speak Spanish. Many choice a language because of their back round or because that is what they started to learn at a young age. It defiantly is a valuable skill to have in the modern world.