Being based in Hong Kong, my school encouraged me to pick up Mandarin And I went to an English-speaking international My Mother isĬhinese, and she spoke to me in Cantonese. But to be given the abilities and means to become a bilingual should be a choice available to all children, because its benefits are truly life-changing, and understandably useful in the globalised world we live in today. It is not to say that monolingual children are at any disadvantage, in fact, as I will expand on my personal experience as a trilingual, being multilingual can be difficult for many reasons. For instance, the non-language specific method of reading body language and interpreting a person’s emotions and feelings. Bilinguals are also capable of observing other more subtle methods of communication which exist in all languages. In fact, research has shown that children who are able to speak more than one language tend to possess advantageous attention-switching skills and be strong communicators, due to their abilities to intuitively shift from one language to another. Bilingualism, or multilingualism, is not only cognitively beneficial because of the increased awareness of other linguistic worlds. Whilst volunteering with Bilingualism Matters, I began to understand why. Linguistic universe, and to therefore be conscious from an early age, of the The next generation to think outside of the box and be open to the possibilities of a different Across the world, policies have been shaped so to encourage It’s becoming increasingly common nowadays that childrenįrom primary and secondary schools are engaging with and learning to use more
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