Why dont us English learn a second language from an ealry age????

Question

and not just a basic part of french....even though English is the dominant language, wouldnt it make more sense to speak a second?

Answer 1

it would make complete sense. the japanese learn english from age 4, and it is quite ignorant of us not making any effort whilst many millions of people in the world have gone to such extreme lengths to be able to communicate with us

Answer 2

You may do better to learn English first - "ealry" age ?
The second language to learn should surely be Spanish - the official language in:
Argentina / Bolivia / Chile / Colombia / Costa Rica / Cuba / Dominican Republic / Ecuador / El Salvador / Equatorial Guinea
Guatemala / Honduras / Mexico / Nicaragua / Panama / Paraguay
Peru / Spain / Uruguay / Venezuela

Other countries where Spanish is important
Andorra
Belize
Philippines
United States

Answer 3

(skip to the seckond part for basics)
indeed. however, regarding the fact that english is in the top of the world wide languages, you need not know much, and yet talk to almost anybody. i would also point out, that not "anybody that is anybody has some English". instance is, i know some people that many would be happy to know, still their english is less than elementary. the reasons in that they found their needs fullfilled by other languages like german and french, that are also two widespread languages.

as to why don't the english learn a seckond language, as stated above, there is no need. plus, english is really easy to speak since it includes easily pronouncable sounds - that aren't found in french or spanish(and vice versa).
that's why it would be almost impossible for some english(and i mean all the english speaking nations) people to talk proper japanese or italian or german even. people are not used to the sounds they should make and as that, can't make them.

Answer 4

It depends which part of Britain you come from! In jersey you start to learn French from age 6 and then learn German and Spanish from 14. I speak conversational French, German and a little Spanish. I have been speaking French to my daughter from the age of 3, and although she cannot speak it she understands it. Personally, I think the rest of the world learn to speak English because of America, not Britain, and hardly any Americans speak any kind of second language, even conversationally!

Answer 5

Because languages don't get very good grades at school. The government isn't keen to keep it compulsory so that only those with a keen interest will follow it, having the knock on effect of making the school grades look better. What next - Maths not compulsory? Stupid stupid stupid! It should be compulsory to learn French or German at school right through to the final GCSE year imo, it will at least give an appreciation of what speaking a foreign language is all about. We may all have to learn Mandarin before long...

Answer 6

We mostly don't have time to teach another language during the Primary School years because of the 11 other subjects schools are required to teach.

Very soon however, it WILL be compulsory to teach a modern foreign language - only you can decide to learn it though.

There remains the problem of fitting a new subject into the crowded curriculum in such a way as to make it a meaningful experience for both teachers and learners.

Answer 7

A decade ago to learn English, you had to attend costly English classes or purchase course material like tapes and books. Now you can learn English for free from the comfort of your home using the internet. The BBC and the British Council offer a number of online courses which teach written and spoken English. You can also improve your English by watching television programs and reading English newspapers. For more information, visit http://tinyurl.com/qnzpt

Answer 8

A gude kweschun. If we lurnt anuvver langwidge from an early age when it is easier to lurn leangages beekos we are prgrammed to lurn langwidge at an urliear age, we would be more intellejent and praps improve our English two. A lot can be lurnt by lucking et fings from different angles, and lurning uvver languages iis won weigh of dooing this. Some of us muvver tongue English speekers cld do wiv learning English from an urly edge two!! LOL.

Answer 9

no longer French, in case you like to speak perfect, fluent French, that's incredibly no longer undemanding. i might could say that English is the least confusing- English is incredibly lots an oral language, if it doesnt sound advantageous out loud, that's incorrect. After that, something like Spanish or Italian is undemanding. Mandarin, isn't that no longer undemanding because there is not any conjugation or grammar, besides the indisputable fact that it does not sound like each and every western language and the sentence structures are completely distinctive. Plus, except you take place to stay in Chinatown, that's style-of ineffective.

Answer 10

It would make sense to, but i'm sure you have the choice at school so it would be up to you to decide that at the time.

Where I went to school in NZ Maori was mandatory until we reached secondary school level then we took on the choice of other languages.
I would assume that schools over here in the UK offer you the choice of learning another language and whether you take that option and follow it through is up to the individual.

There is nothing stopping any of us from learning now though.

Answer 11

Try speaking Spanish as a second language