| Pages in topic: < [1 2] | Poll: Do you encourage your own children to learn other languages? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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Yaotl Altan 
Mexico
Local time: 21:35
Member (2006)
English to Spanish
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I don't have children, but I encourage my nieces and nephews to learn languages because they can widen their access to information and culture.
| | | | Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 00:35
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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| Yes, of course! | Aug 17, 2016 |
And believe me, the earlier you do that, the best results you'll get. I'm talking about 5 year-olds here. They learn it fast an accuratley. The older they get, the harder it gets.
I notice there certain places in the world where children are not really motivated to learn a foreign language or, actually, anything beyond their own culture and territory. But that has been changing fast in the past decades, and it's a lot different and better today than it was in the 1980's. The whole w... See more And believe me, the earlier you do that, the best results you'll get. I'm talking about 5 year-olds here. They learn it fast an accuratley. The older they get, the harder it gets.
I notice there certain places in the world where children are not really motivated to learn a foreign language or, actually, anything beyond their own culture and territory. But that has been changing fast in the past decades, and it's a lot different and better today than it was in the 1980's. The whole world is changing, and everyone has to follow the tendencies or be somehow excluded.
In Brazil, since the 1960's, a foreign language is mandatory as of the 5th grade, and the tests to be admitted in college, to work in public institutions, and others include a foreign language. I studied in some of these "places" I mention above, and I noted it is perfeclty possible to graduate from high-school, and later from college, without knowing a word in a foreign language. How great is that in a highly globalized world? And believe me, although this is changing a lot, there are still many "closed" cultures in many countries around the world. The experience I had was only one example.
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| | | | Michael Harris
Germany
Local time: 05:35
Member (2006)
German to English
Encourage them?
They are brought up trilingual and have their own interest in languages.+
If they want to learn more, then we will support them
| | | | Juan Jacob
Mexico
Local time: 21:35
French to Spanish
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...my 4 childrens are bilingual Spanish/French, they learn/ed English at school and are interested in Catalan. We all love languages, so they do their own job about it... not too difficult to encourage them.
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