Puede tu dice Espanol, Ingles, y Aleman?
Language. One of the fundamental differences that separate people from each other, beside nationality, race, and country. Over thousands of years people became numerous enough to warrant the need of written language and even after that there were ancient civilizations, like the Incas, who relied on beads to communicate messages instead. The spoken word is how parents communicate with their children, and it is how their children learn how to communicate with their parents and others. In America almost everybody speaks English to a certain degree, and 500 million people speak english around the world (Marcos), is the national language of a dozen countries, is an official U.N. language and plenty of business negotiations are conducted in English. So it’s understandable why Americans, who know English as their primary language do not feel the need to learn other languages.
However, learning another language is an important part of immersion into another culture, through better communication with its native speakers. According to research by the American Center on the Teaching of Foreign Languages children learn languages easier than adults (Bunnell, ACTFL). The U.S. should start having a second language from …show more content…
While living in a country, such as America, where the national language is english learning another language negatively impacts the ability to learn. However, this could not be farther from the truth. Bilingual children actually perform better on English tests than monolingual children (Breon). There is evidence to show that children are similar to sponges in the way they absorb information (Roy). Apparently, children have excellent neural plasticity, a fancy term that means that their brains adapt to new information, absorb it, and process exceptionally well, compared to adults
Language. One of the fundamental differences that separate people from each other, beside nationality, race, and country. Over thousands of years people became numerous enough to warrant the need of written language and even after that there were ancient civilizations, like the Incas, who relied on beads to communicate messages instead. The spoken word is how parents communicate with their children, and it is how their children learn how to communicate with their parents and others. In America almost everybody speaks English to a certain degree, and 500 million people speak english around the world (Marcos), is the national language of a dozen countries, is an official U.N. language and plenty of business negotiations are conducted in English. So it’s understandable why Americans, who know English as their primary language do not feel the need to learn other languages.
However, learning another language is an important part of immersion into another culture, through better communication with its native speakers. According to research by the American Center on the Teaching of Foreign Languages children learn languages easier than adults (Bunnell, ACTFL). The U.S. should start having a second language from …show more content…
While living in a country, such as America, where the national language is english learning another language negatively impacts the ability to learn. However, this could not be farther from the truth. Bilingual children actually perform better on English tests than monolingual children (Breon). There is evidence to show that children are similar to sponges in the way they absorb information (Roy). Apparently, children have excellent neural plasticity, a fancy term that means that their brains adapt to new information, absorb it, and process exceptionally well, compared to adults