The Power of Speaking More Than Two Languages

Chapter 12 "Language diversity and school education in banks". (2012) Discussions on US demographic changes over the past 10 years and the challenges learners face in our education system. They say the new wave of immigrants is the main cause of the diversity of new languages ​​in the United States. In addition, they also pointed out that today's immigrants are more diversified and new immigrants are better at education, social class, and economic capital. Today 's immigrants are more likely to have families who graduated from college than those from their country of origin.

Several children around the world and the USA are bilingual or can speak multiple languages. These children learn both languages ​​at the same time, usually with bilingual parents who speak two languages ​​at home. Many of these bilingual children can fluently speak two languages ​​before they are four years old. Several few children learn to speak dialects and their variants before learning to speak standard English. Whether the dialect of the whole country should be regarded as equal to the value of the traditional language, today's discussion is still fierce

Bidirectional selection / bilingual can speak two languages ​​or two languages. Most people in the world speak multiple languages; the United States is a bit rare since many citizens speak only English. Bi-directional selection can be promoted by helping students learn contrasts between native language variants and language standard variants. Back to the list Cajun When Arcadia (currently Nova Scotia and New Brunswick) was deported in 1765, it was taken to Louisiana by the Acadian or Kajin. These people were originally French, and unlike French French, they speak a variety of French. Because the people of Kazi often live isolatedly, the diversity of that language still exists today. Cajun English is a variety of English spoken by Cajun. It is strongly influenced by French vocabulary and pronunciation. Back to Contents