Learning a new language takes patience and understanding. It took me five years to fully learn and understand Spanish. To learn this new and foreign subject I had to take into perspective that I would also need to revisit how we speak English.
For my major one of my disciplines is going to be Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). In order for me to be able to teach another language, I have to understand how to learn another language as well. Learning Spanish has given me the opportunity to understand how a student might feel when they are struggling to learn English, so that I can apply that to the way that I teach to further improve the students’ learning ability.
This metaphor of bilingualism does not only apply to languages. When studying interdisciplinary studies, the two or more disciplines that you choose to intertwine must have the ability to relate and work mutually. Like a foreign language, these disciplines have vocabularies of their own. In order to be able to communicate them well, you have to have a deep understanding of both subjects.
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