Languages are important door openers

The educational field is a very important part of any country, so when a teacher is a cultured person because he has the knowledge of a couple of languages o even dialects, it is very beneficial for them personally and also for their students. Any person is able to transmit knowledge and their experience to someone, but a teacher has an even bigger opportunity to do it, because he has fresh minds that can absorb all his knowledge for their own personal benefit. When a teacher is multilingual, he has countless of opportunities that any other teacher that only speaks one language would not have.

Being a multilingual teacher can benefit by improving their own native language. It has been proven that when a person is knowledgeable in a couple of languages, it also helps expand their understanding of their native language. They can have a superior vocabulary, a stronger appreciation of their native language and develop literary skills at a higher level. By being able to speak, write, read or even think in a variety of languages, can help us learn to appreciate the beauty of our own language. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once said, "Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own." It is a very true statement because we cannot expect to dominate other languages without being able to master our own.

Another of the principal benefits of being a multilingual teacher is that you can work in numerous places; your employment potential can double compared to other teachers that only have the knowledge of one language. Education is very varied in the work field; you can have the opportunity to go to other countries and teach in different places about your native home, language and culture, or even have the prospect to work as a teacher in a long distance class. A multilingual teacher has the opportunity to opportunity to transmit everything he knows to his student’s beneficiating them by teaching them about different cultures or customs in other countries beside their own.

An additional and very important benefit of being a multilingual teacher is that they can help their students acquire a variety of abilities that can help them all along their future. When a teacher helps a student learn a new language, they are also helping them improve in other areas, such as: creativity, problem solving, reasoning and mental abilities in general. Every time an educator is teaching his students a new language, he also teaches them at least a little about the culture of the country the language comes from. That can benefit his students by helping them be more accepting and open-minded about different standards of living and societies.

In conclusion, being a multilingual teacher in reality can only bring you benefits and not disadvantages, it can never hurt anyone to be a little bit more knowledgeable about anything in life. Just like Federico Fellini, an Italian film director, once said “A different language is a different vision of life." This is very true, because they all have something diverse that makes them unique but important at the very same time.