Should language teaching programmes include information about cultural matters ?
As Michael Gove said “Learning a foreign language and the culture that goes with it , is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and Imaginative sympathy and cultural Outlook of children” with that being said , learning a new language has to be accompanied a broad background about that culture . leaning about the new culture will allow you to compare it with your culture thus with your mother tongue . this would make language learning much easier . one of the most common reasons why some one would learn a certain language is the admiration and affection to that culture for example , my friend really admires and loves Persian people that why he learnt that language and quickly . Japanese is a difficult langue because we are not familiar with its grammar and characters but thousands of people from various nationalities learn Japanese and Korean due to their rich culture and amazing cities . Learning the target language culture would make it easier to un