Everyone travels sometime in their life. Most people travel for vacation. Lots of people travel for family. Others, still, travel for work. If people learned foreign languages in school, it would be much easier traveling to other countries. My uncle works for the air force and he only knows 2 languages, english and filipino. And yet he has to go all over the world for work. A few years ago, he was in South Korea. Just recently he was in Qatar. He doesn’t know …show more content…
If yes, this is because knowing more languages actually makes you smarter. It happens to be so because when you learn another language, the memory lobe in your brain increases in size. When the memory lobe increases in size, you remember more things, as well as longer. Your brain also gets an increase of grey matter. The larger amount of grey matter that you have, the better your sensory perceptions are. The perceptions that could affect your schooling would be speech, seeing, hearing, memory, emotions, decision making and self-control. All of this improves your cognitive performance as well. And just from learning one language. This could greatly affect students grades.
Although there are many pros, there are also cons. Some people might get too stressed or confused trying to remember all of the words and phrases. Also, some students’ parents are immigrants, and so the students might already know more than one language. The average person already speaks from 1 to 4 languages and so learning another might make your speech all mixed up.
Now I wish that the school i’m attending did have foreign language classes. These classes can be beneficial in many ways. If my school had foreign language classes, i’m sure they’d be full. Knowing more languages can make some people’s lives so much easier. All schools should have classes to learn foreign