Should our children learn the English Language fluently before any other language?

Answer 1

YES! For the sake of society YES!

Answer 2

It is not necessary that they learn fluently English BEFORE any other language. The can learn another language at the same time. For kids it is very easy to learn languages as they are not afraid to make mistakes.

Answer 3

Early childhood education studies have determined that exposure to foreign languages before the age of five can be VERY beneficial to learning other languages, including native languages. Exposure can be as light as hearing a second language regularly spoken in the home or school, or as thorough as having one language spoken at home and another at school or preschool.

In practice, I have to say it worked for me. I was able to attend an after-school program to learn Spanish when I was in kindergarten, and I can converse fairly well in six or seven languages today. I find learning languages (both human and machine) easy and enjoyable.

I believe that the primary benefit of learning a non-native language is that it requires you to think about how language is structured, how thoughts become words, and how the parts of speech fit together. English is often very fluid (not to say incomprehensible :-) in its structure if you don't have this kind of filter on your perception, and learning to think in another language builds mental flexibility.

Answer 4

That's usually the way it happens. Typically, schools will start foreign language training until high school (middle school, if the student has high enough a reading level). Fluency in English is paramount, not only to learning any other language, but also before serious study of literature and composition can happen.

Yes, I agree with you. Completely.

Answer 5

Depends where you live, if in an English speaking country it would seem best to get the child to understand his/her own tongue first. A second language can be introduced at a young age, though, because young children have a greater capability for learning.

Answer 6

If they live in a country where English is the only official language, yes.

They can learn other languages, of course, but in an English-speaking country, English should be learned first.

Answer 7

Young children absorb easily and can learn languages simultaneously. It is important for the child to retain his/her culture and sense of identity. In reading, the child should first learn in his/her native language, and then in English. This has been proven in studies done in the past 5 years.

Answer 8

Children can learn more than one language and much research proves that they can become bilingual before 5 yrs.
(I can't say that American sources are a good example!) But look at many European countries ie Netherlands and Switzerland where 3+ languages are required.

Answer 9

no longer French, in case you opt to communicate splendid, fluent French, it incredibly is quite no longer common. i might ought to assert that English is the finest- English is quite a lot an oral language, if it doesnt sound superb out loud, it incredibly is incorrect. After that, some thing like Spanish or Italian is easy. Mandarin, isn't that no longer common considering the fact that there is not any conjugation or grammar, in spite of the indisputable fact that it would not sound like numerous western language and the sentence systems are completely distinctive. Plus, till you take place to stay in Chinatown, it incredibly is type-of ineffective.

Answer 10

It's not completely necessary.

I learned spanish before english but I'm now fluent in both (including portugese and Italian).

It's probably a better idea to develop multiple language centers in the brain while children are in the "sponge" phase. That's what I did with my nephew and he speaks italian better than me.

Answer 11

Depends on your definition of fluent. Adequately, yes. But, foreign phrases introduced "casually" in small to larger doses as the child matures into junior high is beneficial...as the expansion of the fluency of all aspects of the English language.