History promotes the development of languages. It helps people to understand the origins of a particular language and the culture hides in a particular language. I think knowing a language's history can help us learn the language from three aspects.
First of all, history involves culture that is very important in learning a language. Understanding the cultural development through the history is beneficial to know the way that people talk. For example, the idea of respecting the old is from Confucianism in China and then the idea spread to Korea and Japan. So the idea led to the development of honorifics forms in Korea and Japan. There are a lot of examples showing that history plays a big role in languages and bring reactivities in languages. So knowing a language's history can explain the formation of a language system.
Second, knowing a language's history can help people have more feelings about native speaking. Every language has proverbs or old sayings. For example, in Chinese, if you want to describe two friends who will be separated in different places in the future, people will say There is no never-ending feast. This is an old-saying in Chinese. But if you want to understand why people use this old-saying to describe people, history is the best place to find answers.
Third, knowing some history is beneficial for you to communicate with native speakers. History can be topics for a discussion between you and your friends. Also, it is a good chance for you to ask questions and chat with native speakers.
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