Little English Brains

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

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INDEX

�10 reasons to study languages

� 6 ways to learn a foreignlanguagelanguage

� 10 benefits of learning a foreignlanguage at an early age

� Languages and culture

� Choosing a new culture

� Advices

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.

One of the most important things is that they learn

like it is a toy.

Nowadays English is very important to enter in a

school and the ones who have highest levels have

more opportunities.

10 BENEFITS OF LEARNING A FOREIGN

LANGUAGE AT AN EARLY AGE

more opportunities.

Kids have an innate ability to acquire the rules of any

language, that ability disappears by adulthood.

They start understanding earlier.

The children who are bilingual read better in

both languages.

They can go to any country without any problem of

not understanding.

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

for processing information.

They can have better relations with others

children.

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

10 REASONS TO STUDY LANGUAGES

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.

CULTURE:Other reason to learn a

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.

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.

READING MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS

If you read in a foreign languageyou will be able tounderstand new words

WATCHING FILMS AND TV

You will listen how others

6 WAYS TO LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUGE

You will listen how othersspeak English and you willknow how others intonate

the words

LISTENING TO MUSIC

You will know the feelingsof the people, and listen how others pronouncethe words.

VISITING A COUNTRY

You can also learn a languageby visiting other country, youcan see how their culture isand you can talk with peopleto improve the language you

are learningFINDING A

FOREIGN FRIENDYou can find a foreign friend and foreign friend and you can teach himyour language and he can teach youhis/her language

TAKING CLASSESWhen you have free time you can go to anacademy or particular classes to know thegrammar and vocabularyof the 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 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

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

USEFULNESS

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

DIFFICULTY

For Spanish speakers, the five Easiest Foreign Languages are:

Portuguese

Italian

French

Romanian

English

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 youspend with the

language the fasteryou will learn it.

Listen And Read Every Day

Listen and read 1 hour per day, try also to read whatyou are listening.

you will learn it.

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