I know it's late and probably isn't the best short essay, but well if you haven't sent in something yet you can use my essay.
Being able to speak several languages opens up borders abroad to do business. That is especially relevant in art. Overall it can translate to a better career in perks like a higher salary, more opportunity to travel and also gives the person a great benefit when applying to a job among monolingual candidates.
For instance, when going into a art or art history based career learning a language like French is helpful because its a language that has a deep culture. To explain better, the knowledge of French offers in depth understanding of French themselves and history since its been the forefront of artistic life along with intellectual life for centuries. Another reason for learning French beyond learning for the history of the art is for discussions and negotiations with artists, galleries and art dealers. It can help in the learning the French heritage and dealings with people who created the art as well as people who are in charge of art.
The French are very proud of heritage and language. Learning of their language is a offering of respect towards the France’s history as a whole. Besides, many who are French won’t want to deal with a foreigner who won’t speak to them in French in their own country or will out right ignore them because of this. Of course, if a person does decide to take a French class be prepared to do a lot of memorization, learn of confusing linguistic concepts like noun genders and be patient since it might take years to be fluent. It does help that there many French words similar in the English vocabulary. Even though it may not be easy it is a tremendously valuable skill to have when traveling across Europe, most importantly in the profession of art history.
In the long run, learning another language has great benefits for those people in their future career. Whether it is done for greater understanding, a bigger paycheck or a competitive edge against others in art profession. Ultimately, those who are bilingual will get a greater boost in start of their careers.
