The diversity of human languages has always fascinated me. Cognitive Scientist, Lena Boroditsky, talks about how linguistic diversity proves the ingenuity and flexibility of the human mind. There are 7,000 world languages currently, apparently. Does the language you speak really shape the way you think? The words we have available to us in our language can guide our reasoning about events; in Spanish we would say - the vase broke, in English we would say - he broke the vase

There are a hundred different reasons to learn a new language which, by the way, far outweigh the number of counter-arguments given to me...