Multilingual ability as a competitive edge
 

我々はいま複雑な世界に生き、生活にいろいろの問題を 解決するのがかかります。

仕事の探すとか、コンピューターの技術とか、旅行とか 、様々な問題の解決に一番速い方法は、インターネット の上に回答を探すのです。でも、海のような資料がただ 漢文だけのデータベースとウェブサイトに隠れない、和 文、英文、フランス文などのウェブサイトも埋められて いる。実は、Youtube　の上に同じなことを探すとき、Engli shのインプットで出た資料と比べて、和文のほうが出たi nformationと違います。或いは、中国語ができない場合、Ba iduと言うサイトの豊富な資料を利用できない。

その結果によって考えて、もしただ英文だけできる場合 、ただ１つのデータベースを利用できます。もし漢文も 日本語もできれば、三つのデータベースを利用するのに よって、我々の問題の解決を手伝いてくれてできます。 では、おそらく言語はインターネットあるの現代で、別 人に勝つの鍵だろう。

Translated into English as follows:

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.

However,the information related to our question is likely not in Chinese , it maybe in Japanese, English or French . In fact, when we search data /answers on Youtube, the answers we get from inputing an English word is different from inputing Japanese or Chinese. Or, in case you don't know any Chinese, it means you can't use sea-like volume of information on the website Baidu.com.

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 more foreign languages is the key which makes us outsmart others in the epoch of internet

少なくとも日本では、自分の知識や情報をインターネッ トの検索に頼っている人は尊敬されません。

At least in Japan, one who depend on Internet serch for knowledge or information gets no respect.

Respect from other people, don't you need it?

Are you referring to people who use the Internet to find information on only one source? Or people who cross-reference the information they find on various sites to confirm the information?

The Internet is one of the best places to obtain information from. Yes, there is a lot of fraudulent data out there, but its pretty easy to filter that out.

Without the use of the Internet, I'd say we'd all be a lot more ignorant than we are today. To say you do not respect someone who uses the Internet to obtain information comes off as quite haughty.

I wish I was multi lingual.

I never did like my French teacher:vsign:

According to the British linguist, David Crystal, the majority of internet content will NOT be in English in the near future.

Where I'm from.. it doesn't matter where your knowledge comes from. Just as long as you can argue it reasonably and rationally.

Internet is very convenient tool, but nothing more than a tool.
As it is not always true one who have many books or super computer is intelligent person, internet or multilingual capability would not　necessarily decide people's value.

That is why professors forbid students from referring to Wikipedia for their works.

Well, that's just sensible; Wikipedia isn't very reliable.

What about google scholar though?

I have not use google scholar, but all easy tools sometimes spoil people's effort.
Searching or filtering might let people lazy.

I thought everybody knew that already.... There are a few instances in which people actually get paid more for being bi/multilingual, and they actually have to take a test to prove that they are. Because Spanish is the native tongue of many people here but we are a territory of the US, in many cases, knowing English is a requirement for a job.

In my case, I just like learning languages, because I find that interesting in and of itself. I would like to learn Japanese,Thai, German, and Mandarin. People don't know why, but I just do; it's one way for me to get my kicks. Either way, the only way for a person to learn a language different from their own is the desire to do so; it's something you have to want. If not, you won't get anything out of it since you won't have the necessary motivation to persist.

Same as language , more precisely speaking our mother tongue , set the boundary of what we are capable of thinking of ; foreign language ability now limits the extent and depth of the information we can access and therefore what we can think of . It is a pity that there are some people there still ignorant of the rapid changes happen around them .