Quality of Life and Bilingualism
The Quality of Life Index published in 2005, showed that the five countries with the highest standard of living were: Ireland, Switzerland, Norway, Luxembourg and Sweden. All these countries have one key thing in common – they promote multilingualism.
Give Your Child a Gift. Give them Bilingualism
It is stated that the languages which the child is using from birth are the starting point for learning new languages later. That’s why it is important that from the beginning the child can enjoy language acquisition, regardless of whether or not the child is from a mono or multilingual family or which languages the family is using in their daily life.
Nowadays, it has been proven that bilingual children learn to speak earlier than
monolingual children and that they have better opportunities to choose a career when leaving university. In addition, children receive a “second window” on the world, which helps them to develop open curiosity towards different languages and cultures.
“Since I was brought up in a single language family and always found language learning difficult” a mother says, “I feel strongly that we have given our children a great gift by giving them multiple languages from early childhood. They are blessed with bilingual brains!”
Different and better opportunities
A bilingual child is able to communicate with a wider variety of people and will have economic advantages in their future. Research has even shown advantages in improved thinking skills among bilingual individuals.
Children, who learn more than one language in their formative years, will acquire those languages with more ease and “native-like” ability than they would trying to study those languages post adolesence. Bilingualism helps small children to make sense of the world about them and to discover the excitement of communication. Once children know how to use one language, they can usually learn another one very quickly. |
