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Languages are many in this world and there was perhaps a man who knew around 200 of them! Quite a big number and we must feel the intensity of that person, who dared to learn so many languages, when we hardly can remember the names of 200 people from our community!

Learning languages can be a good hobby and at the same can be a great asset to the knowledge of this world, and if you are a literature lover, nothing is better than knowing more languages and reading the literature in that particular language. And if you want to write some of your emotions and feelings and at the same time want that nobody else should understand it, the knowledge of the script of a different language can be a good tool for you to write your emotions solely for you and avoiding and reading by others!

Now we come to the main point of this topic--benefit of languages for the sportsperson. This may look or sound absurd and utterly useless, but if we contemplate on some of the benefit, we will see that sportsperson have a definite advantage by learning multiple languages. However, the advantage can be apparent, if the players play in team events, where a lot of chatting and strategic talk is going on. Suppose, there is an intense battle going on in soccer field and the players of the opponent country and shouting to each other to plan a new attack. If you know the language of those players, you can easily decipher the plan and act to foil it. But does not sound too much and though nobody has practiced it yet, and if we are talking about the international games, the players would like to concentrate on their own game rather than the language in which the players of opponent team talk; but surely if someone tries, it can be of some advantage!

I myself have a big hobby to learn multiple languages and I am learning around 9 languages, though all are of Indian origin: you will be surprised to know that in India we have around 530 languages, and that is quite a big number! Ananda C. Koomaraswamy, who was the first person to get the Indian art included in Britannica encyclopedia, himself knew around 15 languages. And what a scholar he was! Though we are here more concerned about the players and sportsperson, we can still have the added advantage of knowing foreign languages! I have also started learning German or Deutsch, as they say it there, and suppose some player knows this language and he or she is playing in Germany, how happy he or she would feel to understand the languages of the people who would be there conversing and to understand all the signboards and all other things that are there! Though it is bit difficult for the players to learn the language, for, they have little time for it, but still if someone tries, it can be a good thing!