Thursday, February 19, 2015

Importance of learning a new language

(Heard from web)
There was a cat. The cat had a little kitten. One day, when the cat and its kitten were walking, they saw a dog.
The dog stared at the cat for a while. And then started barking. The cat returned the stares by its soft purrs.
Soon, the dog began to chase the cat and its kitten. The cat and its kitten ran.
They ran and ran until they began to get tired.
They couldn't run more. The cat thought, "We cannot keep running like this. We would get tired."
The cat thought of an idea, "If we purr, the dog will keep chasing us. If we bark like the dog, it may leave us."
The cat stopped and it started to bark. In other words, it started to speak in the dog's language.
The dog was surprised, "How can a cat bark?"
The dog thought, "Perhaps, this is not a cat, it must be some other animal which looks like a cat and can bark like a dog."
The dog began to run in the opposite direction, leaving the cat and the kitten to themselves.
The cat said to the kitten, "Now, do you understand the importance of learning a new language?"
This story essentially, illustrates the importance of learning an additional language or the power of learning a new language.