To be bilingual…

I asked one of my students to write a composition of the benefits about being bilingual, an this is the excellent composition she wrote:

“To me, to be bilingual is something special, a gift perhaps, something that some people can’t handle as well as others. The advantages that I have from other people by speaking two languages is an extremely positive thing for me, I look at it as a very important thing for me in the future.
For example, I get to know and understand two different cultures, people ask for my help in situations like going to the doctors, vet, police station, even court! I can also try my best to teach other people English or Spanish, I find it easier to pick up on other languages. It can also be quite funny when Spanish people think I can’t speak their language and start saying things that they shouldn’t!
Another important example is the day I have a job interview and I inform them that I can speak another language!
I suppose I have to thank my dad for putting me in a Spanish school when I was just four years old; straight from England; a choice that is difficult, hard and not easy for a parent to do, so I had no other choice but to adapt to it!
Hopefully this wont be an anticlimax and I will possibly learn another language fluently and enjoy a career in this field in the future”.


.Robyn 1º Bach. B