Engine for progress
Up-to-date linguistic research demonstrates incredibly positive results the policy of multilingualism may lead to. As it happens, promoting language skills can immensely increase company's economic parameters. Although the most wide-spread language is English, a modern European/American employee needs to know German, French, Spanish as well as Mandarin, Arabic and Russian if he is engaged in information exchange process,
Knowing more language broadens person's outlook, mindset and general cultural skills. Learning the language of another country/nation/ethnicity, he invariable learns more about the culture of the people speaking that language.
Within modern economically-developed countries, there exists the principle of free movement of resources, people, goods and services. In other words, an ordinary European citizen, for example, visits at least a half of all the EU countries in search of better living conditions. Here arises the lingual or rather the multilingual issue: how can a person mover from state to state not being familiar with at least several European languages?
Indeed, European research shows that multilingualism increases competitiveness. The more languages you know, the wider the possible list of countries you may go to seeking for work. Undoubtedly, it rises person's marketability and employment prospects.
On the other hand, multilingualism is one of the most powerful intercultural communication stimuli for progress. If you have a right to move or get in touch with the whole world on a free basis, it's easy to grasp that you may enrich the culture (language) of any country you visit and learn its language for yourself in the same way.
In case of minority languages, rational multilingual policy contributes to better social and political integration of this or that minority group into entire society. In modern world, any language has to be supported but not the other way round. Under such conditions only we may move to democracy and prosperity.
