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Being A Bilingual Person Essay

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Bilingual is defined, according to Webster’s dictionary, as ‘having or using two languages especially as spoken with the fluency characteristics of a native speaker; a person using two languages especially habitually and with control like that of a native speaker’ and bilingualism as ‘the constant oral use of two languages’. Therefore, being a bilingual person means you are able to communicate in two languages and not only that. Anna Wierzbicka claims in her article that “A point which seems to me particularly important is that experience of bilingual people should not be construed as merely their experience of speaking two languages but rather as their experience of living with other people through two different languages”. Knowing two languages, at least, gives you a better experience with a variety of people, especially if you know English or Chinese, which are the most important languages in the world. The author debates a “research into the interface of emotions and bilingualism promises to throw new light on wider issues of the relationship between …show more content…

Viorica Marian says in her article (‘The Cognitive Benefits of Being Bilingual’) that “We are surrounded by language during nearly every waking moment of our lives. We use language to communicate our thoughts and feelings, to connect with others and identify with our culture, and to understand the world around us”. I believe you act and think in a way in one language and some other way in the other one. For my generation it’s easier to think in English because we are being surrounded by this language everywhere we go: music, movies, books and so many others. Also, it’s easier to express something in English because there are no expressions alike in our actual language. English is really a language of communication and it is ideal for

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