The importance of learning a foreign language (correction needed) Today I am going to look at the process of learning languages in a globalized world, and also, I would like to give some insights from my own experience. On the one hand, the phenomena known as globalization has deeply affected the way in which people learn languages nowadays, firstly because internet has helped us to connect easily with people from around the world that don´t necessary share our mother tongue and then, secondly, there is the increasingly need to be able to speak other languages in search for good working opportunities to improve our lives. Consider my personal experience for instance. I moved abroad with a scholarship and there, I had to communicate with people of varied nationalities. Once there, I found it really helpful to speak a little bit of English, at least at the very basics, to face daily challenges such a buying food or opening a bank account. Furthermore, I consider it might have helped me as well with the acquisition of the local tongue since the learning process of a second language was already installed into my mindset; so that, I could say that the task simply consisted of repeating the same process over again. On the other hand, I agree with the statement that English is the lingua franca on Internet, so better to be fluent and have a good grasp of it while surfing the websites, to be able to fully understand what happens in our globalized world. Nevertheless, educational systems in Europe must yet to adapt to the new scenario by increasing the number of hours aimed at language learning and also improving the quality of it. I have even heard that new illiteracy nowadays consists of the lack of knowledge of other languages other than the mother tongue, rather than not being able to read or write. Last but not least, I have recently read a scientific study which reveals that bilingual persons always suffer a much degenerative slower process of Alzheimer´s disease than those who doesn´t have the skill. Accordingly, this could also be another great reason to become fluent in another language, if we would like to care for our well-being and mental health. Summing up, either for labor or health motivations, to learn another language is required as the minimum ability to better adapt to a globalized world.