Who’s taking part in the 2022 Pokémon World Championships? 🔥 Friends and trainers across the globe are getting together on the Pokemon GO battleground! Join our #PokemonWorlds event and share with the community: 🎮 Your fave Pokemon character 🎮 Share the character’s name in the language you’re learning 🎮 Explain why you love the character! We’re giving away $5 #italki credits to 10 winners to join in on the fun. Winners shared on August 24th.

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From my experience, learning a languages really help for me to widen my world view as well as understand different cultures with more depth. When choosing what language to learn, I make sure there is that innate interest that will help motivate me to push forward. I will definitely encourage these same habits for my future children. I think have kind and encouraging tutors are the most helpful for me so I will strive to have that available for my future kids.

In 5 years I see myself going to Harvard to move on to the Korean language after getting fluent in Japanese and Spanish or however many other languages I learn! I can also see myself being an Italki tutor teaching multiple different languages including my native language English! I'll post a post in 5 years to see what I got correct!

#RisingBilingualStar My wife and I are making an emphatic and deliberate effort to raise our 2 boys trilingual. And so, far we're winning at it! We are doing this for the grandparents, and to give our kids the superpower of multilingualism. Our kids speak fluently Spanish, English, and Polish. Fingers crossed they'll remain like that. We live in New York City, so English is the dominant language. We gotta be diligent! We are starting to see how English, being the common language in society, pushes our kids toward speaking English. It's the "cool" language their friends speak. Fortunately, there's a lot of Polish and Spanish around. Also, it's normal in NYC for families to be like ours. I am grateful for having this environment.

In five years time I see myself turning into a multi linguist and having fluent multilingual skills. I started my language learning journey when I was relatively young so five years may seem like a short time to master fluency but for me I believe it is more than enough. With a global economy, businesses need to have professionals who are able to communicate with clients around the world. That’s why I am convinced that having additional language skills can set me apart for the competition. I am going to achieve my goal by making sure that every single to dedicate time to learn something new or to learn new vocabulary that will make things easier for me on the long run. I will also achieve it by using italki to find affordable good teachers that will make my learning journey run smoothly.

In my experience as a young person, learning a second language has strengthened a lot of skills I used to lack. Memory, multitasking and concentration are just a few. I definitely will try to help my future children learn a language if they’re interested, I definitely wish I had started even younger!

People who have been learning second language from their childhood usually know this language better than ones who start their learning process at more mature age. They can even become as good communicators as native speakers, in spite of the fact that their target language isn’t spoken by their relatives. I‘ve seen loads of videos where little children speak in different languages with natives like they are ones. On those TV-shows parents always said, that they had decided their kids to learn languages so early just to receive cooler results faster. And I think it makes sense, the sooner the better.