The essence of culture represents by its language and vice versa. Language is the life-blood of a nation. It occupies the tradition and the heritage of one’s dignity. That is the exact and prominent way that human beings use to communicate with each other. Language is an exceptional juncture in the history of human beings. It embellishes the wisdom of another territory to the next generation.

The language that we first hear is our mother tongue. It is different with the environment and the usage. It is an extraordinary prowess only blessed in humans. We have learned the languages accurately when we were at school. We mainly learnt 3 languages at school including Sinhalese, Tamil and  English. For Sinhalese native speakers, their second language is Tamil and Sinhalese is the second language for Tamil native speakers. English has learnt widely apart from that.

The world is moving forward at its highest speed with novel expeditions with skilful innovativeness. This century is blissful with the newest technology as well. We are some undergraduates in this territory. The world needs more talented individuals for filling the vacancies. The employees seek a person who has achieved something in a convenient way.

How could a language highlight you among your peer batch mates? How does this matter shape your future path? Believe it or not, it hardly reflects on your career pathway. The person who could fluent in Sinhalese, Tamil and English, he/she has made his/her future ambition into another spectacular dimension than the persons who know only their mother tongue. It does not matter what your stream of learning is. If you are capable of any other language, you would definitely grab the precious opportunity before your peers. The employees love to get support for their companies and conglomerates through dedicated individuals. When the undergraduates have the very same qualifications as everyone has, none is not representing the uniqueness of their personality. If any person among there knows another foreign language, he would be the person that the companies have looking for.

Language learning is beneficial in many more ways. It enables your memory sane. It facilitates your neuron paths. Language learner elaborates the dedication and encouragement as it represents the acceptance of new challenges. It fabricates the enormous potential of yourself like a challenge-accepted individual. By learning a novel language, you freshen your language skills while experimenting with new grammar patterns. How many of us know what a phrasal verb is? While engaging in another language dimension, you could gain the prowess to find it out. It provides you to learn your own mother tongue properly.

Expertise in languages has become an outstanding opportunity in this 21st-century era. As undergraduates, we are seeking a career path according to our future prospects. In this manner, languages nurture and uplift us. Many employees, conglomerates love to get the help of individuals who could speak more than his/her mother tongue. It markedly becomes bliss when you are at the interview door. Languages could strikingly transform you into an alluring personality among your very own peers.

Learning a language makes you a person with skillfulness and adroitness. It is mind-boggling merit if we see a person who has the capability of speaking trilingual languages on the island. That would be a winsome asset for you for a lifetime. It embellishes matchless decorativeness in another spectacular way. A language influences the friendship with many more friends. Isn't it?

Learning languages has the ability to heighten your profile and we have to pay much attention as university undergraduates to enhance our career paths through it too.

P.M.S.S.Somarathna

2 year

Department of Linguistics

Faculty of Humanities