Spanish is a beautiful language, growing rapidly throughout the world and is now the second most spoken language with over 400 million Spanish speakers globally. Spanish is spoken by 22 different countries in the world including Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru and many other countries on the continent of Latin America, not including Brazil and Guyana.
Speaking a foreign language is a valuable asset for any child because we believe learning another language must begin at an early age in order to take full advantage of the benefits it offers because it can positively influence your child’s opportunities in life and open doors in their future.
Learning another language is a lot easier for children because of their minds adaptability and because of their brains’ plasticity. In the first 7-8 years of their life, your children are naturally developing their language skills during interactions with you and other family members and society, so they are able to absorb tonnes of new information.
One of the main advantages of learning another language is that your child will have an educational edge in school, compared with children that do not have another language in their linguistic arsenal.
Learning another language helps your child develop more neural connections in the brain because more information is being absorbed, allowing your child to learn a lot faster and more efficiently than a non-bilingual child. It also improves your child’s memory because bilingual children must think in terms of two languages or more for every subject, theme or concept that is being taught to them.
Children that speak another language develop efficient problem-solving skills and increase their creativity and the ability to express this.
The Spanish language is easier to learn than other languages such as Chinese, Russian, Arabic etc because it has Latin roots and shares lots of similarities with other Latin-based languages such as French, Portuguese, English and Italian.
Once children can learn Spanish, the rest of the latin based languages will be easier to learn. Spanish can be a catalyst to increase their understanding and awareness of other languages. These Latin based languages share ‘cognates‘ (words that share a similar sound) with Spanish and English such as:
Alcohol; Chocolate; Doctor; Original and Idea etc.
Check out our comprehensive list of English-Spanish cognates page.
Learning Spanish can allow a much deeper understanding of the English language and can help improve your child’s English comprehension, and certain Spanish words can really help deepen their understanding of English words.
For example the Spanish word ‘bien’ means ‘good’, and in English, lots of words with a positive connotation have a similar root, such as ‘benefit’, ‘benevolent’, ‘beneficial’.
Not only does learning another language increase the neural connections in the brain, but it also improves your cognitive skills. Cognitive skills are the core skills the brain uses to think, read, reason, and store memory so developing these skills are crucial for their literacy skills and improves their experience of every day life.
Bilingual minds can have a greater capacity for increased attention and multi-tasking capabilities than a monolingual mind, and also develop critical thinking skills and enhances a child’s memory.
The ability to communicate to people from different cultures across the world when you travel is great when breaking barriers with people, you and your children can develop more confidence speaking and engaging with the warm and welcoming people of these Spanish speaking countries.
Spain is just a stone’s throw away and is a very popular destination for British tourists, so learning Spanish helps to foster a more amicable relationship between us and Spanish-speakers because it shows the efforts you are willing to go to, to effectively communicate with them.
Learning Spanish is not simply about learning another language, it can truly expand you and your child’s cultural experience and horizons. Learning Spanish can help you to appreciate phenomenal films, music, food, books and literature which would otherwise be unavailable in English and helps your child to learn to appreciate other cultures.
Learning another language not only introduces you and your child to another culture, but also fixes in the child an acceptance, tolerance and understanding of others who may be come from another culture.
Bi-lingual children have more job opportunities in their later lives, and by the time your child has grown up and entered the work force the number of Spanish-speakers would have expanded a considerable amount.
Many companies and corporations do business internationally, and the need to communicate effectively to native–speaking customers and clients facilitates the high demand for bilingual speakers. Spanish is also becoming more of a business necessity and can make your child more marketable in overseas markets for their future.
Learning another language is not only fun and exciting, but will also provide more long-term benefits to your child’s learning, their future progression in school and work, and offers them a wealth of experience that can really enrich your child’s life, through an awareness and understanding of different cultures.
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