外語決非一只工具而已

saint1633

In the epoch of Internet, thinking that language is just a means of communication and there is no need to pay too much time on it , is a fatal mistake, which, prevents  many people from  learning a foreign language well.
As we know, in our daily life , there are a lot of problems we have to solve. The best way is to look for the answers on the internet.The capability of accessing and absorbing as much information and knowledge as we can is crucial for how successful we are in job and life.
However, the information related to our question is likely not in Chinese , it can be in Japanese, English or French , for example, when we search data /answers on Youtube, the answers we get from inputting an English word is different from inputting Japanese or Chinese. So, we can see that if we only know English ,we only can get information from those English websites or database; if we know more languages such as Chinese and Japanese, then we get two more groups of information for our purpose. We therefore can say that the grasp of one or  more foreign languages is the key which makes us outsmart others in the epoch of internet .
Foreign language is ,in fact,  not just a means of communication ,but should be viewed as the limit of intellectual power, the limit of our influence in this world.