What does learning a language mean?

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         With learning a new language, the thought of why and what learning a new language means is important. Besides thinking about interaction between people it allows you to develop problem solving skills. With the knowledge of a new language, it makes your brain have a stronger problem-solving skill and makes you more flexible and creative. Language is a puzzle that needs to be solved no matter the conversation. You'll have to know what word to use and when to use it, how to form a sentence, and how to address someone. With the learning of a new language, you're learning a lot, this greatly increases your ability to retain information, whether it's short term or long term. Retaining your memory of a language increase your recall, as you may need to remember a pronunciation, or the meaning of a word. Learning a language combines many groups of people who may not have been able to interact with you without learning English. Though learning another language, you reach a common ground with people who may haven't reached the point of learning English. Though you both can communicate growing an appreciation of diversity. All learners benefit from this as you're supporting each other whether or not you both have a common ground of English. 

    As someone who has studied another language before (Spanish) I greatly enjoyed it. it's helped me interact with many people I don't think I'd have a chance to interact with. I think that it's also made others happy to see someone who took the time to learn their language and their culture and enjoy it as much as they have. I hope that I can learn Japanese in the same sense I did Spanish and speak it fluently giving myself opportunities to spread the language.