“Probing Question: Are There Real Benefits to Being Bilingual? ” states that being bilingual does not actually have any real impact on individuals. Even though there has been ideas circulating about bilingualism having an impact on our education, there is not a fact based evidence to prove it. President Obama did encourage parents to teach their kids another language if they only spoke one language. He believes that being bilingualism can benefit individuals socially and academically. Some benefits from being bilingual are being able to retain and ignore certain information and having an increased mental flexibility due to the switching back and forth between two languages; they all have to deal with the cognitive control. With all these being
