Bilingual / Multilingual
What languages?
Advantages and Disadventages
Experiences
Why
English
Chinese
Introduce my self
First name and Last name
Which school do I go to
Age
A SHORT personal story
Danny Huang
ISF (Independent School Foundation)
Grade 7 (currently)
13
a little bit of cantonese
My mother tongue is Chinese because I was born in Shen Zhen, China. And lived there until I was nine years old. Both my mother and my father are from mainland China. When I finished grade 2 in China, my family moved to Hong Kong where I started to learn English.
introduction
A lot of people believe that being bilingual is very difficult. But the truth is, it is not hard at all, and it can be fun. The secret to becoming bilingual is exposure. The more you listen to a language, the more you read books magazines and newspapers, the more you watch movies or TV shows in that language, the more you begin to understand and absorb it. You will know when you are truly bilingual when you start to 'think' in both languages.
Disadvantages
Advantages
learning a new culture
making new friends from people in different cultures.
appear to be more inteligent
understand conversations in both languages
help people to translate
have fun
Helps you when you travel
(Anecdote)
More job opportunities later in life
get the two languages mixed up and make mistakes
sometimes slows down your thinking
instead of being brilliant on one language, you are just reasonably good at two languages.
Conclution
Dispite a few minor disadvantages, it is clearly very beneficial and there are many advantages to being bilingual or multilingual. It pervades opportunities socially, culturally, and comically (later in our life).