Who do not love to eat Pizzas and Pasta? Italian food is something you can’t get bored with. But what if you can also be able to speak Italian? Well, there is no doubt in saying that speaking Italian has its own perks. It is not just about learning a foreign language, Italian language is a proud in itself. Did you know more than 80 million people speak Italian and it is among the supplest languages in the world?

Here are 3 benefits which could absolutely sway your brains and make you choose Italian over any other foreign language.

Learning Italian would help in learning other Romance languages like French, Portuguese, and Spanish. In Vocabulary, it is very closer to French and the sound system i.e. Phonology is much closer to 3rd or 4th widely spoken language in the world, Spanish.

Italian is very much associated with the language of Romans and you will be surprised to know that approximately 30% of English words are of Latin origin. So the language is very familiar for native English speakers. Furthermore, the Italian verb tenses correspond quite closely to the English tense system.

Another benefit would be that you’ll be able to understand what you’re eating. You can then eat your favorite cuisine by knowing what their actual meaning is. Like when you eat the ribbon-shaped pasta, farfalle, you are eating butterflies and that the arrabiate of the pasta, arrabiate literally means angry. Your visits to Italian restaurant will no longer be language learning class if you start learning it from today. So for all the Italian foodies learning this language is surely a perk to you.

Most important thing is that Learning and knowing Italian would also benefit your career. People with foreign language skills these days are more and more in demand by the employers, and not just for translator or interpreter positions but being able to speak a second (or even third) language makes you pleasant to American companies that have offices outside the United States.

Bilingual employees’ bonuses and higher salaries are also given if they bring language skills to the table by some businesses companies.

Italian is a Romance language. It comes from Latin, which makes it reasonably similar to its bigger, more famous, more important cousins, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. The British Council ranked Italian #7 on the list of languages to be learned for a native speaker of English. In their wisdom, they consider it more important than Russian, Turkish, or Japanese. Italian is among the most highly phonemic languages on the planet. One letter - one sound, basically, so you write it 99.9% as you speak it, and vice versa. No spelling bees available.

Learning Italian come with an ease because phonetics of the language can be easily understood from the written words.

Get this. Not only is Italian beautiful. Apparently, it's the most beautiful language in the world!