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Nowadays there
is a controversial issue that children should begin learning a foreign language
as soon as they start school. There are many advantages and disadvantages in
early learning a foreign language. If I have to choose the one side, I will
insist that children should learn a foreign language as soon as they start
school for following some reasons.
First, as children,
they are easy to learn another language. Learning another language is important
as the world has been globalized. So many people have tried to learn another
language for many reasons such as making friends, studying abroad, traveling
other countries etc. So even older people try to learn other languages. But
actually as people get older, it is difficult for them to learn a foreign
language. But it is easy for children to learn about another foreign language.
Of course, children can learn quickly not only a foreign language but also
other subjects. But for the language, it can be crucial. Some brain researchers
insist that the process of learning a language between children and adults is
different. While adults learn different brain regions when they use a foreign
language compare to their mother tongue, children use the same regions when
they use a foreign language. It means as we grew up, it is difficult to learn
another language like a mother tongue. So for adults, we can not easily chase
the fluency of another language as native people. Thus, children should learn
another language as soon as possible.
Second, children
have less stress during learning another language. For adults, learning a foreign
language can be annoying job. Because they have to learn different grammar,
sentence structure, words. So it can be the big burden to many adults. But in
young children learning a language can be just kind of play. They have less
stress because they usually learn a language through video or animation which
is just fun for them. So they can absorb another language just part of game.
And they do not consider it as study. So they can have a fluent language skill
without stress. One of my cousins who was 8years old, she learned English from
Youtube animation so she thought that English was really fun because she loved
that animation. So while she had learned English she had no stress at all. Thus,
children should learn a foreign language as soon as they start school.
Some people
worry about if children learn about a foreign language they could be confused
about which is there first language. But in Korea there are many English kindergarten
that teaches English even before the elementary school. But it this case there is
almost no side effect on their language but they improved a lot in the second
language. So I think it is good for children to learn about a foreign language
as soon as they start school.
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