Some people believe that all children should learn a foreign language from the time they start school, while others feel that it is better to wait until a child is at secondary school. Discuss both sides and give your own opinion.

In today's globalised economy, the ability to speak a

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dialect is more useful than ever before. While some believe that children should only start to learn a foreign vernacular at secondary

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, I side with those who feel the learning process should begin the moment children enter the education system. On the one hand, it could be argued that the study of foreign languages should wait. Those in favour of postponing argue that young

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children already have a timetable

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fit to burst and learning how to read, write and count take precedence over

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studies. In short, they feel that the native

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should come

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. What is more, they

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argue that only a small minority of children will ever actually need to use a

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, so it is a waste of time teaching a skill that for many will be redundant later in life. It is a fact that the earlier a child learns a

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, the more proficiently they will eventually be able to speak it. Research has shown that before puberty, children have unique ability to acquire languages by simply being exposed to them, which is a skill that ends in adolescence.

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, in my opinion, children who learn at an early stage often lack the fear associated with speaking in a foreign tongue.

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, they don't feel self-conscious when trying to pronounce foreign sounds.

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, perhaps my strongest argument for starting early is that learning a foreign

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provides children with a range of other cognitive skills. Bilingual children are known to perform better on problem solving tasks and have more creativity than their monolingual counterparts, which are desirable skills for children of any age. In conclusion,

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young children already have full timetables, learning a foreign

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has many positive cognitive side effects

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, on balance, I strongly believe that children should start learning a

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at primary

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rather than secondary

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