Why learn a second language?

If you can speak "English"-that means you can speak the language spoken by more than 850 million people on the earth, which is about 12% of the people on the earth.

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You can learn more languages, such as Spanish, French and German. Even if you only choose one of them, you have basically entered the circle of globalization. In fact, you are already a superpower. After all, those who can really learn more than three languages are "awesome".

Of course, why encourage children to learn one more foreign language?

Learning a second foreign language has many advantages.

Bilingual people have better memory methods and abilities.

Generally speaking, bilingual children's memory ability will be more prominent than monolingual children's. Although memory is an innate ability, not everyone has the same skills and abilities, and it can be learned and changed through acquired learning. Children who have been exposed to foreign countries since childhood will exercise stronger memory in the process of slowly trying to accumulate.

It is said that being bilingual can delay the onset of some diseases.

Studies have shown that when bilingual ability is used, the density of gray matter will be relatively high, and it will contact many neurons, which means that some parts of your brain will be more active, so to some extent, it will delay the onset of certain diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and dementia, for up to five years.

Bilingual people are generally smarter.

Researchers have found that learning a second language can not only improve the language center of the brain, but also improve other cognitive abilities. People with bilingual ability will be more active in thinking, able to cope with the current situation in time, solve problems creatively, and their attention will be more concentrated and not easily dispersed.

Bilingual will improve your interpersonal communication.

To some extent, if you want to be completely bilingual, it means that you have to know two languages and two cultures at the same time, which means that when you associate with others, you can integrate into their cultural thinking more quickly and communicate well with them.

Overseas travel/study will benefit a lot from bilingualism.

Traveling abroad/studying abroad is a beautiful thing in itself. Naturally, it cannot be influenced by language communication barriers. If you can communicate directly with the local people, the amount of information and gains will be completely different, and the journey will be more interesting and vivid because of the local people's answers.

You in the workplace will be more outstanding because of your bilingual ability.

Not to mention that you will definitely need bilingual ability in your post, but if you are bilingual, you will definitely have more opportunities to shine and you will get more attention because of this ability.

These are just the benefits that bilingualism can bring, so people who have a third language and multiple languages will definitely add to the power.

Then let's talk about the above advantages, which children can't fully harvest, but as a point of view to provide guidance for 2- 18-year-old children, why do you say these?

Because the "best period" for learning a new language is adolescence, which is about 3- 12 years old. At this stage, children are more likely to learn a language. At this time, their developing brain is more plastic, and they can use both hemispheres of the brain to learn a language.

For most adults, only one hemisphere of the brain can be used for language learning.

As we all know, the left hemisphere of the brain is biased towards thinking logic and the right hemisphere is biased towards social emotions, which means that children will have a more complete understanding of the social and emotional situations they use when learning a language. On the contrary, adults rarely have such a reaction when learning a language, and they will be more rational when facing many problems.

Therefore, language learning guidance should be given as soon as possible. If parents are still hesitant to let their children learn languages other than English, they can seriously consider it. Maybe you can spend time with your children and practice your language skills ~