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).