Once you’ve learned a new language, it’s hard to go back. You develop a specific mindset and gain experiences that you can only have from learning a foreign language.

If you studied a foreign language, here are some things that you’ll immediately be able to relate to. If you’re only able to speak one language (English), these are references that you can look forward to.

1. It’s easy to get started. But so hard to master it.

Language learners are aware that getting started is the easiest part of learning any skill. However, it’s a different game to move from novice to intermediate, then from intermediate to advanced. What is the actual trick to learning a language more quickly? Regularity, devotion, and consistency.

2. Your private teacher becomes the highlight of your day

Your rate of learning can be accelerated by taking private lessons. One of the finest things to look out to in your stressful day might be spending time with these professors if you begin to develop a relationship with them. With each session, there is fun, learning, and growth, and it may become addictive.

3. Going to the same ethnic restaurant again

From sushi to Korean BBQ, we only find ourselves going to that same restaurant again, not only to enjoy the delicious food but to practice your target language.

4. That feeling when you’ve just had your first conversation with a native speaker

Best feeling. Ever.

5. You now travel for a completely different reason

When you can speak a new language, you can start building relationships with native speakers living in the country. Travel will never feel the same again.

6. The urge to start learning yet another language

We’ve all fantasised about learning dozens of languages and becoming polyglots. But it’s important to develop a strong foundation with one language first before moving on to another.

7. Someone learns that you speak a foreign language, and now wants you to translate everything

Then you realize how little you actually know, and how much more you need to practice.

8. The urge to hang out with anyone that speaks the language you’re learning

You either use a language or you lose it when you first start learning it. Finding opportunities to practise communicating with anyone who would converse with you in your target language is essential. Look for meetups, conversations, websites that teach languages online, anything!

9. You’ve mistakenly greeted someone in a foreign language

Especially after you just finished speaking with your private teacher.

10. Impress the people around you by ordering Tacos in Spanish

11. When someone uses the “everybody speaks English” argument

While over 1 Billion people speak English as their first or second language, that’s still 85% of the world that do not. As the world becomes a more multicultural place by the day, the diversity of languages spoken will only continue to increase.

12. When people talk about you in a foreign language… but you understand them

13. When you learn how to speak Spanish, and realize that there are 10+ places that speak a different type of Spanish

From Argentina, Colombia, Spain, and Mexico – they all come with different slangs, accents, and even grammar rules that will continuously confuse you!

14. The first things you want to learn are the dirty words in the language

Let’s face it, these are the best words to learn. It’s why I first learned all the dirty words in Spanish when I traveled to South America.

15. You’ve studied the language for so long that you forget how to say something in your native language.

Hola? Bonjour? Hello? It happens to the best of us.