Being Bilingual Benefits
“Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.”-Rita Mae Brown In the US, there are a lot of people from all across the globe. You can find diversity in culture and language. The most basic necessity for everyone is to communicate with one another. In today’s society it seems that knowing multiple languages is almost a necessity.
The United States is largely monolingual. Only about 15-20% of Americans consider themselves bilingual, compared to 56 percent of Europeans surveyed in 2006 by the European Commission.The advantages of being bilingual is practically never ending if you think about it. We live in a multilingual universe. This universe depends on being able to find and build the bonds and bridges that connect us across our diversity. Language can separate us beyond belief, but multilingualism helps us rebuild the bonds and bridges that are broken by language barriers, for a united future. Because I am bilingual, I have the opportunity to follow my dreams and enjoy the many dreams of family and friends. The world will be at my grasp, and there will be a minimal to limits preventing me from reaching my dreams. Being bilingual also allows me to communicate with many different people—people who think in unique ways, who have their own dreams, and who are ready to broaden my lifestyle and culture, with their own amazingly diverse cultures.Additionally, being multilingual makes me more intelligent. By learning different languages, my brain is advanced farther than that of a monolingual person. For example, I can read and write in two …show more content…
We can use our words as a weapon to defeat challenges we are faced with. We can use our vocabulary in different ways: to explain, to convince, to read, to understand, to clarify, to interpret, to reveal, and to illustrate. We will be diverse and united, and with our words, we will begin to paint a new
The United States is largely monolingual. Only about 15-20% of Americans consider themselves bilingual, compared to 56 percent of Europeans surveyed in 2006 by the European Commission.The advantages of being bilingual is practically never ending if you think about it. We live in a multilingual universe. This universe depends on being able to find and build the bonds and bridges that connect us across our diversity. Language can separate us beyond belief, but multilingualism helps us rebuild the bonds and bridges that are broken by language barriers, for a united future. Because I am bilingual, I have the opportunity to follow my dreams and enjoy the many dreams of family and friends. The world will be at my grasp, and there will be a minimal to limits preventing me from reaching my dreams. Being bilingual also allows me to communicate with many different people—people who think in unique ways, who have their own dreams, and who are ready to broaden my lifestyle and culture, with their own amazingly diverse cultures.Additionally, being multilingual makes me more intelligent. By learning different languages, my brain is advanced farther than that of a monolingual person. For example, I can read and write in two …show more content…
We can use our words as a weapon to defeat challenges we are faced with. We can use our vocabulary in different ways: to explain, to convince, to read, to understand, to clarify, to interpret, to reveal, and to illustrate. We will be diverse and united, and with our words, we will begin to paint a new