I recently went on a school trip to Spain over Spring break. In the beginning, I was very nervous. I was so scared to get on the plane without my parents, being away from them for a week and a half, staying in a different country for that long, and staying with a family that I don't really know for 4 days towards the end of the trip. When I was on that trip, I realized that only knowing 3-4 years of Spanish doesn't get you very far. The whole time when I was in Spain, I only knew 4 or 5 words throughout a whole 10-20 minute conversation. It was hard to understand what the students were learning in the Spain schools because I only knew a few words.
The problem is that we should do something about teaching Spanish while the kids are in …show more content…
It should be taught in kindergarten. When I was in Spain, I continued to wish that I learned Spanish since I was in kindergarten because I wanted to be able to communicate with my family better instead of using a 2nd grader's vocabulary of Spanish. I wanted to be able to talk at a high school level and not at a lower level.
Some of the positive aspects of learning Spanish is that it will help your career, you can enjoy many books and movies that are in that language, it gives you many travel destinations--like Mexico and Spain, and it is an easy language to learn. It can also help if children start to learn Spanish and other languages at age 3 when they start preschool, but it can be very beneficial for them psychologically.
A lot of people agree with this solution and want many languages to be taught at young ages. It would help especially at a young age because their brains are still developing and it will get easier as they get older. “There are approximately 329 million native Spanish speakers in the world, and they populate some of the coolest destinations in the world. You can leave behind the touristy resorts in Cancun and explore thousands of miles of cheap and beautiful Latin American cities, beaches, and trails. Since the number of Spanish speakers in the U.S. continues to rise, chances are it will become even easier to learn and practice this …show more content…
“Fair or not, the fact is that while the U.S. does not have a national requirement for students to learn a foreign language in school, the typical European pupil must study multiple languages in the classroom before becoming a teen. Meanwhile, the U.S. does not have a nationwide foreign-language mandate at any level of education. Many states allow individual school districts to set language requirements for high school graduation, and primary schools have very low rates of even offering foreign-language
The problem is that we should do something about teaching Spanish while the kids are in …show more content…
It should be taught in kindergarten. When I was in Spain, I continued to wish that I learned Spanish since I was in kindergarten because I wanted to be able to communicate with my family better instead of using a 2nd grader's vocabulary of Spanish. I wanted to be able to talk at a high school level and not at a lower level.
Some of the positive aspects of learning Spanish is that it will help your career, you can enjoy many books and movies that are in that language, it gives you many travel destinations--like Mexico and Spain, and it is an easy language to learn. It can also help if children start to learn Spanish and other languages at age 3 when they start preschool, but it can be very beneficial for them psychologically.
A lot of people agree with this solution and want many languages to be taught at young ages. It would help especially at a young age because their brains are still developing and it will get easier as they get older. “There are approximately 329 million native Spanish speakers in the world, and they populate some of the coolest destinations in the world. You can leave behind the touristy resorts in Cancun and explore thousands of miles of cheap and beautiful Latin American cities, beaches, and trails. Since the number of Spanish speakers in the U.S. continues to rise, chances are it will become even easier to learn and practice this …show more content…
“Fair or not, the fact is that while the U.S. does not have a national requirement for students to learn a foreign language in school, the typical European pupil must study multiple languages in the classroom before becoming a teen. Meanwhile, the U.S. does not have a nationwide foreign-language mandate at any level of education. Many states allow individual school districts to set language requirements for high school graduation, and primary schools have very low rates of even offering foreign-language