Some experts believe that it is better for children to begin learning a foreign language at primary school rather than secondary school. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?

There has been some suggestions given by experts state that children gain more benefit from learning a

language

other than their mother-tongue from an early age before going to secondary school. It is true that

this

method can have some advantages, but there are

also

drawbacks in it. So the question is whether the pros can outnumber the cons or is

this

an invalid approach?

To begin

with, primary school is a good

time

for kids to learn and adapt to new knowledge, especially when it comes to

language

,

Accept space

,

if they get used to pronouncing and grammar structures at

this

time

, they will have more

time

to perfect them.

Moreover

, the longer

time

we spend on one

language

the more attached we will become

to

Suggestion

of

it,

hence

, it is more difficult to turn

to

Suggestion

into

another one. Another advantage of knowing a foreign

language

is children can get access to a wider range of information than a usual primary school student would be able to.

On the other hand

,

young

Suggestion

younger

pupils should concentrate more on other

sujects

the subject matter of a conversation or discussion

subjects

like Science, Math and the

language

of their country. Spending

time

on foreign phrases and words means less on their own and that can become troublesome in the future as the educational curriculum is written in their mother-tongue, not others.

However

, studying abroad will be a good opportunity provided to those who have the same knowledge of other cultures as theirs. In conclusion, adding foreign

language

among the subjects in primary schools is quite a good suggestion as

children can

Accept comma addition

children, can

develop it better as they come to it sooner and the good side of knowing a new

language

outweighs the bad one. But kids should

also

learn their mother tongue

first

before studying anything else and should never forget it.