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Teaching foreign languages to in schools is very important, and here are just a few reasons as to why:

Communication is one of the most important things that students learn throughout their schooling. While still in just preschool and kindergarten, children are encouraged to communicate their thoughts and feeling. They are taught what it means to be happy or sad and how to ask for politely for things and how to share. Everyday, kindergarten and preschool students are adding new words to their growing vocabularies.

As students get older, they are taught how to write. Writing is a very important tool of education. First students are taught the letters, then how to spell small words and then bigger words. Then students are taught how to make sentences, paragraphs, papers, essays on the History of the Civil War. Student are asked to write papers and give presentations, have debates and class discussion. All of these things are steps towards better communication.

Teaching foreign languages is a very important step towards communication for more reason than one. By learning a foreign language, students will learn more about their own language – the roots of words, grammar, etc. Also, teaching foreign languages to students gives students a chance to communicate with people from other cultures.

It is important that students know that English is not the only language in the world, that Americans do not possess the only culture. Students should not be taught to think that they do not need to learn a foreign language because everyone speaks English anyhow. First of all, not everyone speaks English. Second of all, people appreciate it if you can speak with them in their native tongue. And third of all, there are many more reasons for teaching foreign languages in schools than simply the fact that students will know more than one language.

Teaching foreign languages and learning foreign languages use parts of the brain that simply teaching and learning about history and math, etc. do not use. Teaching foreign languages makes students think in new ways and learn a new way of looking at the surrounding world. Anything that offers students a chance to see the world differently is a great tool.

Teaching foreign languages is a fairly standard option in secondary education, but it ought to be mandatory (or at least more widely available) to students who are much younger. Why? It is much easier to learn a language when you are young. Why not teach foreign languages to students as they are learning their native language? They will pick it up much faster, and in the future, they will be able to pick up other languages faster, as well.

Teaching foreign languages in schools (especially elementary schools) is so incredibly important. This essay hardly does the importance of this topic any justice. Just pay it heed anyhow, and start teaching foreign languages!

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