Benefits Of Learning A New Language

I was very curious to know if learning english was difficult coming to America but to my surprise she had been learning English her whole life. According to authors P.J. Scholfield and C. Gitsaki, “Many countries around the world in which English is taught exhibit some kind of dual system of education” (Scholfield and Gitsaki). Betty explained she had watched English shows and movies her whole life. She also told me she was tutored in Greece on the English language since it is such a common language. “Greece attracts many tourists and therefore the ability to speak a foreign language, especially English, is of vital importance for people who work in the tourist industry” (Scholfield and Gitsaki). Consequently her parents wanted her to know English since so many people use it. Referring back to her social class she was able to get the one on one tutoring on

In my Intercultural Communication class, we have been asked to interview a person who is of a different culture than my own. In my work community, I have the opportunity to work with people who may not have the same values or even come from the same culture. For this reason I chose to interview my coworker and friend Sybile Orelus. Sybile was born in Florida, but lived in Haiti for a majority of her adolescent life until she started high school.

In the summer of 2017, a young man named Justin went to Mexico for the first time to visit family. Justin, speaking only English, struggled to communicate with those around him where the main language spoken in that country is Spanish. Here, being bilingual would sure be handy. Knowing more than one language, becomes beneficial in class, or when people are trying to communicate with each other, or possibly even to order food. Learning a second language should be mandatory for kids and also adults for the advantages they will earn, for a sense of belonging, and also to find ways of teaching others about another dialect.

By many researchers, it has been hypothesized that language could be acquired only within a critical period, which is from early infancy to puberty. If this is true, this should be extended to second language acquisition as well, and, if so, young children should be better at acquiring the second language than adults, and younger children should reach higher levels of proficiency in the second language. If this prediction is true, it would importantly demonstrate that children should be exposed to language with rich vocabulary and grammar within the critical period, and foreign language exposure at school should take place in early grades in order to maximize their opportunity to learn the language effectively. However, the motivation and the purpose of learning the target language may differ depending on the individuals and those factors can limit or expand the exposure to the target language. In this paper, I would like to discuss the correlation between the age that bilingual individuals are exposed to the second language as well as their motivation, purpose, and value of learning the second language. I would like to suggest that regardless of the age that individuals are exposed to the second language, if one values the importance of learning the second language and maximize their exposure to the targeted language, they can reach to the native level of proficiency in that language.

I am writing a essay on why it is good to know a different language then the one you grew up speaking. First there is the traveling aspect, you might want to travel to a different country possibly even move there.Other job opportunities that you might have because you know a second language. In my opinion, the reason to know a second language is America is a melting pot of races and languages.

Has it never crossed your mind how handy it would be to speak the language of the country you are being on vacations – let say Russian, Chinese, or (why not?), Kurdish. This is, indeed, a rhetorical question because wherever you are from, you have already had for sure a cross-cultural encounter that may had not worked as well as desired... If you grow up being bilingual, you probably know exactly about which transactional problems while speaking we are talking about, yet being bilingual has much more benefits than disadvantages. For instance, being bilingual or even multilingual is not only helpful for travelling or working but for your mental health. Psysiological studies show people speaking several languages are assessed as better while performing cognitive tasks .

My senior paper is about what I want to do in my future, but as well as the realization that there is a much bigger world out there. We have dyeing languages and cultures out in the world and people do not even realize it. There are more people learning English than there are people learning another language besides English. English is becoming the universal language. So, I will be sharing with you the benefits of learning a new language as well as why there are only a limit on foreign culture we can learn about in schools. There will also be the discussion of the form of work that you can do as a translator/ interpreter and more benefits that you can have with any job with knowing a second language. What I will

As the title suggests, “Speaking in Tongues: The Many Benefits of Bilingualism” is an article that examines the advantages of bilingualism. Due to the nature of the world, a great number of people have acquired the ability to speak more than one language. The author explores the benefits such an ability offers, arguing that bilingual children develop social, linguistic and cognitive skillsets that not only provides a chance to explore different cultures, but raises a child’s awareness of how language functions. The author also weighs on the cognitive aspect; applying the works of Ellen Bialystok to their ( the author’s ) argument. In the author’s view, bilingual children are better at dealing with conflicting cues and assessing information.

Language acquisition is very interesting topic, recently become part of our life and it helps the communication between people not only enables us to understand others. Also it has aids in developing relationships, as we know this language is crucial part of everyday life.

Despite these disadvantages, there are also some advantages. Some scientists have found that learning a second language can develop human intelligence. They believe and have proven that learning a second language offers remarkable benefits for our brains: increased flexibility and improved cognition. Bilingual or multilingual people have a clear, substantial mental advantage over what the public thinks. Learning a foreign language does not simply mean that we can talk to a wide range of people in the world; it is in fact much more fundamental. According to Dr. Thomas Bak, a lecturer in the Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences Department at the University of Edinburgh, learning a second language helps a person develop the brain, even though the person is not fluent in that language. The study found that learning a second language made the brain develop cognitive skills, not only associated with languages, and also protects the elderly from Alzheimer's and dementia disease when people are elderly (Delistraty). Many people know that using the brain frequently helps to prevent dementia disease. Studying another language is more economical than paying for hospital costs in the future. This is great news not only someone who is multilingual, but also positive news for everyone. In addition, when some people speak more than 2 languages, they use their brain a lot. Whereby, it helps to improve concentration and multitasking ability too. When people learn a second language,

Some experts believe that it is better for children to begin learning a foreign language at primary school rather than secondary school.

Second language acquisition is a process whereby people learn an additional language on top of their native ones. Learning a second language can be functional to oneself especially when communicating with a person whom you do not have a common language with. In acquiring the second language, there will be difficulties that one might face as compared to acquiring the first language, which makes it harder to acquire. Our mother tongue is easier to learn as we would have been brought up by our parents or grandparents that speak the language. Learning a second language can be difficult as we are not brought up for that language and would not know the basis of it. Some factors that makes it hard is the age of the learner, experience, the cognitive

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart,” said Nelson Mandela. I noticed how important this saying is during my stay in South Africa, when different people responded in a more friendly manner whenever I attempted to speak to them in their different languages. This ranged from me getting a discount for a haircut after I greeted the storekeeper in German, to receiving a free bottle of orange juice at the Chinese restaurant when I introduced myself in Mandarin Chinese, to being the only person in a hotel’s reception at the moment to receive a genuine smile from the receptionist when I replied her question in Spanish. While some may see these things as great achievements, others regard them as insignificant feats, thus, their reason not to bother acquiring a language in addition to whatever they already speak. Unsurprisingly, there are many justifications posed for one’s abstinence from language learning, as well as many reasons why one would not hesitate to do so.

Nelson Mandela, as cited in U.S Department of Education (2010), once said, if you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart (para. 14). Linguistic diversity has become an important factor in society and more and more people are growing up with the ability to speak more than one language. The Linguistic Society of America (n.d) states that most of the world’s population is bilingual or multilingual in the world, where an estimated 5,000 distinct languages are being spoken, and only minorities of citizens are monolingual (para. 1). Being bilingual means that a person is able to speak two languages fluently, while multilingualism means that a person can speak two or more languages with high proficiencies. In the United States and especially in the Washington Metropolitan area, a variety of bilingual people from all different backgrounds and ethnicities live together in one community, so hearing languages from all parts of the world is a phenomenon that can be witnessed on a daily basis. Their abilities have a positive effect on the human brain while also impacting different aspects of life, such as cognitive capabilities, business opportunities and social communication skills.

How many languages is there in the world? And how many languages are there to be learned? On an average count of people, two language is the most that someone has knowledge of, making them bilingual. However, it is not easy to learn a language that is native to them. Some take most interest in learning, but some are required to learn by taking a language class in high school. Besides learning a different language, what about learning a language that is native to you? Just because a language is native to you, does not mean you know the aspect, detail and branch of it. Learning how to speak a new language is not the same as reading a book. Learning how to talk is a norm, it 's something you experience and hear everyday. While speech is a skill that comes natural in life, reading and writing is a skill that needs to be learned. It 's a challenge for everyone to exceed this skill but sooner or later, at different rates, everyone will succeed. For Malcolm X, he exceeded that skill in an environment much contrasting than a school as well as in a much further time in his life. In his essay, “Homemade Education,” he explains his struggle of his education transformation while being convicted. For Christine Marin, a Mexican-American, she perfected her first language, English. She was not fluent in her native language, Spanish. Even though she was raised without learning her native tongue, she overcame her American side and became a very successful women, but there is no escaping her