Languages build the bridges of friendship

9 June 2023
2019

The Turkmen people have a wise saying ‘One who speaks only one language is one person, but one who speaks two languages is two people’. Our ancestors learnt other languages along with their mother tongue. Many poets and scientists created in the Arabic, Persian, Hindi, and German languages. This tradition comes from the times of our ancestors and has special importance thanks to the President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov in the revival of the new epoch of the powerful state.

Multilingualism is emerging in the country. For example, a number of students of Magtymguly Turkmen State University speak 3-4 languages fluently. The President of Turkmenistan instructed to learn the English, Russian, Chinese and German languages not only in the field of linguistics, but also in other fields such as technology and economics. To date, excellent conditions and opportunities are created to implement this task in our country.

Jeren BERDIMYRADOVA,
a 5th year student, Faculty of Romance-Germanic and Oriental Languages, Magtymguly Turkmen State University.