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

In today‘s globalized economy, the ability to speak a

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more useful than ever before. While some believe that

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should only start to learn a foreign

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at secondary

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, I side with those who feel the learning process should begin the moment

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enter the education system. On the one hand, it could be argued that the study of foreign languages should wait. Those in favour of postponement argue that young

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already have a hectic timetable

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fit to burst and learning Mathematics and Science should 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

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will ever actually need to use a

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, so it is a waste of time learning a skill that for many will be redundant later in life.

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, I side with those who believe that

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second

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learning should begin at primary

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. It is a fact that the earlier a child learns a

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, the more proficiently they will eventually be able to

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. Research has shown that before puberty,

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have a 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,

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who learn at an early age 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

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words.

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

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provides

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with a range of other cognitive skills. For that matter, Multilingual or even Bilingual

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are known to perform better in problem-solving tasks and have more creativity than their monolingual counterparts, which are desirable skills for

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of any age. In conclusion,

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young

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already have full timetables, learning a foreign

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has many positive cognitive side effects for a child’s overall education.

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, on balance, I strongly believe that

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should start learning a

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at primary

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secondary

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