マルチリンガルの利点

こんにちは。今日はお天気良いのに外が極寒だったため、家で猫とぬくぬくしておりました

Hi, although it was really sunny day today, it was also  really cold outside,I stayed home with cat. 

 

今日は去年書いた英語のエッセイをそのまま載っけたいと思います。

お題はマルチリンガルの利点。

２つの論文を読んで、要約部分に（第一段落）多言語を話す、または習得する環境で育った子どもたち、また大人にどんな益があるかまとめます。

第２、第３段落目にはその論文の有益な部分が私個人の経験にどう当てはまるか述べます。

 

Benefits of Bilingualism 

 

　The articles, “How a second language can boost the brain” by Ramin Skibba, and “the Super Social skills of bilinguals” by Katherine Kinzler explain how bilingualism has beneficial impact on all generations who speak multi-language. Both authors address that bilingualism promotes brains functions and abilities. By using two or three languages, brains work more efficiently. According to Skibba, in his article, he explained how bilingualism benefits both children and elders. Katherine explains how early exposure to multiple languages enhances children's social skills. Ultimately, what the authors want to say in their articles is that a long time ago, bilingualism was believed that obstruction linguistically growth, however, there are great benefits and advantages to all generations. This essay will discuss how studying two languages benefits my son and my mother. 

　A significant idea in the passage is that the benefits of being bilingual are promoting active and healthy brain. According to Skibba, the children who are bilingual “shows advantages in metalinguistic awareness.” Therefore, bilingual people can more tactfully and switch languages spontaneously. It reminds me Katherene's study. According to Katherine study, children who are bilingual and even the children who are not bilingual but regularly exposed to another language that is not their mother tongue have a strong ability to cognitive other person’s views and expectations. Therefore, they can have communication with others smoothly. I agree with the authors. My son, who is not proficient bilingual, but had been exposed to a lot of language since he was baby every day, has strong social skills. He was raised and educated in Chinese, in Japanese and in English. When he was in kindergarten, I was told that stop using Chinese and Japanese in house to avoid his language confusion because he had " code mixing." in his sentences. However, no one could spoke English perfectly in our family fortunately, we decided to continue using three languages. After thirteen years, he does not have any language problems, on the contrary, he is very talkative, and a skillful speaker when we have conflicts. What is more, he is shy, but he is good at commutating with any generations such as babies, elderly people, and of course teenagers who are not only American, Chinese, Italian, Norwegian, and Japanese. Some of them even cannot speak English fluently, he can manage and have a good relationship with them. 

Another important key in these articles is learning another language is promote human’s brains. Skibba explains that people who speak multi-language have dense brains which is indicative that the brain is healthy and more undamaged white matter brain which means they can transmit information smoothly. What is more, he also points out that the brains whose bilingual people support for brain damage and used another route. He calls it “Cognitive compensation.” Therefore, he agrees that being or learning second language is great advantage to prevent from becoming dementia, such as an Alzheimer. For me personally, I strongly agree with that. My mother, at age 73, she has been learning Spanish for over 20 years. She is healthy physically and mentally. Every morning she wakes up early and goes to her vegetable garden where are far away from her house. She does not have a car, so she rides a bicycle for 30minits and takes care of her vegetables for two or three hours. She has been doing this every day for 10 more years. I am really impressed by her energy. 

In conclusion, the authors explain how beneficial and helpful learning a second language is. Being bilingual or even just exposed to other languages promotes the human brain not only physically, but also mentally and surprisingly socially.

 

 

つまり、多言語を使うことによって脳の活性化が促される、、、というわけですね。

 

英語、がんばろ。

 

 

 

MoMA行きました。大学のIDで入れるのでとりあえず卒業まで通い詰めようとおもいます。

 

 

読んでくださってありがとうございました。

次回は、別のエッセイ載っけますw