Publisher's Synopsis
This essay sheds light on the importance of language skills and elucidates the benefits of enhancing your language skills. Moreover, how improving your language skills will strengthen your communication skills and persuasiveness is delineated in this essay. The eminent importance of building language skills as an indispensable component of cultural training programs is often overlooked. Language skills are critical to hone for effective communication skills of which employees who are slated to be transferred to the company's overseas division should competently master. The importance of knowing multiple languages and understanding cultural nuances goes beyond being able to attain more success in an international corporate environment. The benefits of honing language skills are multitudinous and can be highly advantageous for the individual to eminently enhance. "Language not only enhances the capability to understand other cultures, but the ability to understand, speak, read, and write in world languages, in addition to English, is critical to success in business, research, and international relations. Moreover, foreign languages are the most critical communication tools we have to develop relationships across cultures and solve complex cross border challenges-both at home and overseas. In a business setting, communicating in the first language of the client results in more effective business" ("25 Reasons Why," 2017). "Language training renders employees more confident when working with teams, partners, and vendors. Beyond, language acquisition being a bridge into other cultures, new empirical evidence suggests that language learning also encourages the development of empathy and effective interpretive skills. Language learning is only going to grow in importance as globalization makes the world more and more interconnected and 71% of business leaders are currently planning to grow in markets in which English is not spoken" ("25 Reasons Why"). The benefits of enhancing language skills are unequivocally profound since it allows you to more efficaciously communicate with more ethnic groups, bridge into more cultures, pursue more career opportunities abroad, more effectively navigate through foreign environments, and be able to better understand the needs of more cultural groups. Being multilingual and knowing how to communicate more effectively and persuasively with ample ethnic groups by competently understanding their needs, body language, and cultural nuances is a pragmatic and transferable skill that can be applied to contexts outside the business world. For instance, these language skills render traveling less of a cumbersome process, public speaking in foreign countries less strenuous, and networking abroad far more viable since possessing robust language skills from being multilingual can help dismantle language barriers. Moreover, possessing stellar language skills allows you to more seamlessly be successful in foreign environments, especially when you are not stifled by cultural misunderstandings, communication issues, and insurmountable language barriers. Also, improving your lexicon by assimilating more vocabulary words will not only help you better articulate your thoughts and ideas, but will also allow you to speak more persuasively as a result of having significantly improved verbiage to leverage. Being able to understand the subtleties of social ques, body language, and the audience responsiveness of foreign cultural groups will also allow you to further hone your public speaking skills and persuasiveness by being able make adjustments in real time to ameliorate your speeches based on the audience's receptiveness. Improving your language skills entails also augmenting your emotional language skills so that you can speak with more conviction, impact, and influence. Persuading the audience also involves not only establishing common ground with your audience, but also framing your message in a persuasive manner.
