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I sometimes found people not to learn the cultures and lifestyles of this country when learning a language. This is very dangerous one, I think.
In this essay, I will argue learning a language should be accompanied by learning the culture and lifestyles, in order to use a language accurately.
Understanding cultures and lifestyles increase knowledge and skills to acquire a language. This is pretty useful, especially when we need a word proper to explain a certain emotion, attitude, behavior, or situation. For instance, my American girlfriend often asked me to have a lunch outside together even though I was busy for finishing my urgent task at my office. One day was totally different. When she spoke to me with same words, I just told her that “Sorry, I am busy.’ Then I hung up right away in order to report to my supervisor. But she called me back again and again, thinking that it was just an excuse. I could not exactly explain my busy situation and she did not intend to understand it. We were almost about to break up. Later I explained my lack of a language to my girlfriend. As I made up with her, she told me that “a word of jammed rather than busy is perfect to gain understanding.” Considering this happening, a language should be practical. I must admit that the practical word is not be gained without understanding American cultures and lifestyles.
Next, a language has additional meaning each generation. This is associated with the change in our different cultures and lifestyles. So without fully understanding additional or new meaning of a language, we may meet a kind of conflicts or confusion from others. Best example is about words used in ‘www.craigslist.org.’ On the website, some words have totally new meaning different from their initial meaning. In specific, the initial meaning of ‘patient’ is to wait for something. However, the word has new usage of ‘zipping the mouth until somebody finishes words’ on the website. So in order to prevent cultural conflicts or confusion, we have to study cultures and lifestyle of the country using a language.
In conclusion, it is highly crucial to understand cultures and lifestyles in order to improve language knowledge and skills. Therefore anyone who want to crave for learning a language, the person should learn detailed cultures and lifestyles of people using the language.