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For the last assignment I have choose to explore my views on Multilingualism, and Bilingualism, and overall how helpful it is for a person, in work culture or real life scenario.
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Why being bilingual or multilingual is important
Language is a very important aspect in life, because it creates an identity.
Identity is something that is not fixed, it changes the depiction of the person’s personality, since all human beings are not the same. Language plays an enormous role when formatting the human identity. Overall the whole world is becoming interconnected, and the ability to connect with people over the world has become more vital, cognitive development, understanding of the culture, and professional growth helps if being multilingual or bilingual.
A person is considered bilingual when he/she knows to speak two languages, and multilingual when more than two languages (17), I am both. Growing up in Bangladesh, the mother tongue Bengali was what I was born with fluency, but overtime watching hindi shows on Tv, and on the internet, helped shape my Hindi alot, and gradually English when I immigrated to the United States. Being multilingual or bilingual improves cognitive function, research has shown that it can enhance the brain’s ability to memorize, process, and concrete information. Since a bilingual or multilingual brain requires switching between languages it gives enough flexibility to be more creative and open minded with problem solving situations.
Research has shown that multilingualism or bilingualism can enhance cultural identities for individuals exposed in different cultures.
They tend to familiarize themselves with deeper appreciation for diversity. And it gives people the experience and makes it easy to get along with other cultures. Since the understanding of cultural differences is the key to success, cultural studies is beneficial in international studies.
Professional opportunities is another major advantage, because it can create links to work places, and beyond. Majority international companies in today’s world require employees that can speak more than one or two languages, making them bilingual or multilingual.
Research from the Economic forum or benefits of being bilingual or multilingual has shown https://blog.virtualwritingtutor.com/the-economic-advantages-of-bilingualism/ that graduates from Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and mathematics program after graduation gets jobs late, compare to graduates in modern language, because their career is based on communication skills, and having a wider range of industry helps them to employable to multiple sectors of economy. Also, research has shown that monolingual people with a higher IQ get paid less than bilingual or monolingual people, because of diversified communication skills. In general, bilingual people in Europe make on average, 37% more than the monolingual people or the co workers.
The United States for example is parallel to the word diversity, because your surrounding all together is diversified with people from all over the world, so for that reason bilingual children are demonstrated the ability to solve problems containing conflicting or misleading information at an early stage, and have an enhanced ability to switch criteria during given tasks. Another research from the cognitive effects https://idp.springer.com/authorize/casa?redirect_uri=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11126-017-9532-9&casa_token=3yUNFMOZElUAAAAA:xopLLUdRXOMXJEKdmR823eNyPkUJgYnROHCvyy51yV-7B_bQr244uaGUZ1nD7kElrvtmAxxxFf5XihKf
shows that the statistics behind memory tasking between bilingual and monolingual participants having a greater tasking ability for a bilingual is common according to the research than any monolingual.