In today’s global community, it is advantageous to be conversant in multiple languages because our world is more connected than it ever has been in its entire history. Technology and trade are criss-crossing cultural boundaries at an amazing rate. An abundance of international opportunities are available to multilingual professionals compared with their monolingual counterparts. Today most undergraduate arts students in North American universities are required to take a second language course.
While the process of learning a language is automatic, the requisite exposure for native proficiency occurs in the home environment at a very early age.
