Álvaro Torres Vicente

DISCUSSION ESSAY

We live in a world that due to the internet and advances in technology is becoming more globalized, therefore, speaking more than one language is very useful. It only brings advantages the fact of being bilingual?

The main benefit of being bilingual is being able to communicate with people from another country and translating information from one language to another. Speaking English is really useful for me when  traveling and  even when searching for information to do a school work.

Another positive point is that it rises the chances of getting a job, especially in multinational companies that look for people who talk a popular foreign language apart from their own.

On the other hand, to be bilingual you have to dedicate many hours to learn another language, as in my case, studying English at school and going to an academy in my spare time. Moreover, when you know more than one similar language is easy to confuse how to write some words as it happens with Catalan and Spanish.

Summarising, from my point of view the disadvantages of being bilingual are insignificant next to all the advantages that it brings, hence I think it is something essential for today's modern society.