Little English Brains

Little English Brains

Teacher Marta Ayala García Teacher Magdalena Fernández Tejada Teacher Marina Sotodosos Cebrián Teacher Irene Cuesta Redondo

From 10 to 17

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INDEX

10 reasons to study languages 6 ways to learn a foreign language 10 benefits of learning a foreign language at an early age Languages and culture Choosing a new culture Advices

10 BENEFITS OF LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE AT AN EARLY AGE One of the most important things is that they learn like it is a toy.

They learn very well how to pronounce because their sensitive ears pay lot attention at that.

They start learning with songs and games that make it very funny.

Nowadays English is very important to enter in a school and the ones who have highest levels have more opportunities.

They start understanding earlier.

Kids have an innate ability to acquire the rules of any language, that ability disappears by adulthood.

Children who know two languages have more grey matter in their brains. The gray matter is responsible for processing information.

They can go to any country without any problem of not understanding.

The children who are bilingual read better in both languages.

They can have better relations with others children.

10 REASONS TO STUDY LANGUAGES

TRAVELLING: If you decide to go to the United Kingdom or the USA, it’s better to know some English, because you could communicate with the people there.

INTERESTING FACTS: It’s important to learn languages, because it’s the way to know new things.

JOB OPORTUNITIES: If you learn some language you can become an English teacher or French teacher (depending on the language)

BUSINESS: If you learn languages you can create a exchange business.

STUDIES: If you plan to study at a foreign university, college or school, you'll need a good level of the local language

FREE TIME: If you learn languages you can read magazines or books, or you can watch the news of other countries.

COMPARISON: Sometimes learning a foreign language helps you to understand your own language and culture better through comparison, or through the relationship between both languages.

CULTURE: Other reason to learn a language is that you access to other cultures.

IDEA: If you know languages, you’ll know the way in which other people think.

FRIENDS: You can make new friends in other countries.

6 WAYS TO LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUGE

READING MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS If you read in a foreign language you will be able to understand new words

WATCHING FILMS AND TV

You will listen how others speak English and you will know how others intonate the words

LISTENING TO MUSIC You will know the feelings of the people, and listen how others pronounce the words.

VISITING A COUNTRY You can also learn a language by visiting other country, you can see how their culture is and you can talk with people to improve the language you are learning

FINDING A FOREIGN FRIEND

TAKING CLASSES When you have free time you can go to an academy or particular classes to know the grammar and vocabulary of the language

You can find a foreign friend and you can teach him your language and he can teach you his/her language

DOES LANGUAGE INFLUENCE CULTURE? Do the languages we speak shape the way we think?

Do they express our thoughts and the way that we have for thinking?

Russian speakers, who have more words for light and dark blues, are better able to visually discriminate shades of blue

According to Benjamin Lee Whorf and his theory of linguistic relativity, language shapes the way we think, and determines what we think about. He believed that depending on the language that we speak we see the world

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V spoke 6 languages fluently and said the following: I speak Italian to ambassadors, French to women, German to soldiers, English to my horse and Spanish to God. A man is as many times a man, as many languages he knows

CHOOSING A NEW LANGUAGE AVAILABILITY

USEFULNESS

You Must Choose a language that offers the necessary recourses for studying it. You have to look for a language that you can find someone who can give you lessons about it, like English, French, Spanish and German

DIFFICULTY For Spanish speakers, the five Easiest Foreign Languages are: Portuguese Italian French Romanian English

You must choose a language with a large number of speakers, and which is spoken in many countries. The most usefull languages in order are the ones in the graphic

Languages in demand by employers If you want to learn a language in order to improve your employment, the list below gives you an idea of which languages are in demand.

Americas: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Japanese Western Europe: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Greek, Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Mandarin, Arabic‌

ADVICES TO LEARN A LANGUAGE

Spend The Time The more part you spend with the language the faster you will learn it.

Listen And Read Every Day Listen and read 1 hour per day, try also to read what you are listening.

→MARINA SOTODOSOS →MAGDALENA FERNÁNADEZ →IRENE CUESTA →MARTA AYALA

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