A New Language – a New World
When you start learning a new language, you really are as if learning about a new world with its beautiful countries, big cities and small towns which are all interesting in their own special way. Once you begin learning a foreign language, you as if book a ticket to the unknown land and get a splendid opportunity to see its every nook and cranny.
You can walk along the streets you haven't even seen before, admire most picturesque views ever, get to know people who live in this world, visit their homes and be amazed by their unusual way of receiving guests... And it's very exciting and pleasurable for all these things are out-of-this-worldly new and these people from your new world bear very little resemblance to your compatriots – people from your habitual world.
When you start learning a new language, you get acquainted with its brand new to you rules of spelling, its peculiar grammar and tendencies in punctuation. You get absorbed in its vocabulary which often resembles the vocabulary of your language or which is totally different from words you had come across before you started learning your new world.
When you start learning a new language you even feel that certain sections of your brain and personality are being refreshed. You open brand new reserves in your ability to understand terms and notions which are so new that it often seems to you that they have just arrived from the parallel world – so unfamiliar and filled with colours and images you have never seen before.
Learning a new language also suggests getting to know extralingual sphere which surrounds the language you've started learning. It broadens your circle of interests greatly, helping you enlighten yourself regarding different spheres of culture of the new language.
For instance, if you start learning Spanish, you not only indulge in the language with its specific purely linguistic features and particulars, but you also get much closer to Spanish culture in general. That implies learning about Spanish history, literature, art. When learning Spanish, you can't but get to know Spanish people and their customs, their traditional food and clothes, various stereotypes about their passionate and good-humoured character.
The whole issue means that when you learn Spanish, you not only profoundly go into its spelling, vast vocabulary, grammar and punctuation, you find out about salsa, flamenco, tortillas, tequila, machos, corridas and many other specifically Spanish realia. It's nothing but good for it helps your personality find new spheres of implementing your impressive learning potential and practise your polyglotish skills.
Don't hesitate to learn a new language and do not be afraid of getting lost in numerous worlds that may 'attack' you afterwards: your inner world, the outer wonderful world and the immense world of a new language. For the more painted and various your worlds are, the more interesting person you are.