American Bilingualism Advantages And Disadvantages

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Nowadays, some people in Puerto Rico consider bilingualism a waste of time and knowledge. Indeed, they think their language of origin as the most important in comparison to others from other countries. However, the world it’s changing at a pace so rapidly, in which every single day there are new challenges to overcome that requires an open mind to new things. As a matter of fact, in Europe, the majority of the people speak at least 2 languages, and it’s pretty noticeable that their lifestyle it’s so much better than ours. Consider France, the majority of the people speak several languages such as Italian, German, Spanish, and even English, so they could have a variety of countries to make commerce with. Equally important, being bilingual has not only helped them with commerce, but with keeping a good relationship with neighbor countries. Although those are general advantages of bilingualism, there are several more advantages of having a …show more content…

Even though this world has a lot of variants, the branch of music it's one of the many in which you could visualize the advantages of bilingualism with ease. In fact, if you go to a concert from an international singer, there’s a better chance of having the best time in your life, not just by listening to the music, but by understanding the singer’s words. Take my experience as an example, while I was on a Katy Perry’s concert, I could easily laugh at her jokes about how she felt pizza was her lifetime love. Despite the fact, in the world of television the presence of bilingualism it's necessary. Sometimes, movies are only available in a language you can't understand, but by enabling the closed captions, the struggle can be avoided. As an example, I'd once rented a movie about life at Russia, but given that I didn’t know any Russian, I enabled the closed captions and understood the plot