When should we start teaching kids languages?


Nathaniel Worthman
Professor. Dadak
Writing-101
21.2.19

            
            Should foreign languages be taught from a younger age in the United States? Well, there are many benefits and few drawbacks to doing this. For example, teaching kids a foreign language from a younger increases the retention rate of the language in comparison from people who start learning a language from an older age. Additionally, having kids being multilingual from a young age not only will benefit them when they are older because they will be more desired in the workforce, but it also increases one’s creativity because it makes you brain operate in a new way thus enhancing your thought process. 
            Maybe I feel this way because I grew up monolingual and have always wanted to be anything but it. However, I also know that the kids that did grow up multilingual did on average get better grades and were also able to learn other languages easily and I believe that this is all because their brains were used to getting new codes and deciphering thus making it easier to learn others. Because of this I think that in the future I will make sure that my kids grow up speaking at least 3 languages. 

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