Being A Bilingual

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In a globalized world, people are gradually aware of the benefits of mastering of new tongue, such as more knowledge, more opportunities in massive life and even more chances to develop themselves.
Being a bilingual can help people broaden their mind by approaching a huge fund of knowledge from all over the world through foreign documents, books and news in a proactive way with no language obstacle.
As a result, this might lead people seeing the world from a different point of view.
Furthermore, fact have shown that learning language could help develop strong cognitive skills, such as mental flexibility, multitasking, listening skills and problem solving, in addition to improving social interaction and encouraging connection between peers.

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