10 Advantages Of Learning English From Children

Learning English can be difficult for those who try to study in adulthood and even adolescence; But when you are a child, handling another language is as natural as speaking your mother tongue.

For this reason, our children must cultivate this from an early age, specifically between early childhood and six years, because it is the time when they are highly sensitive to languages ​​and can assimilate it faster: Without a doubt, the younger they are, the more they will dominate it. In short: learning English as a child will guarantee your child a better future.  

And is that speaking English will be essential for your child to get a job as an adult and will help him to function in other latitudes. In more than 50 countries, and in many territories and islands, the official language is English  becoming the third most used language on the planet after Mandarin and Spanish.

10 advantages of learning English at an early age

Although the advantages of learning English as a child are countless, let’s look at the most important ones to encourage you to start today. I’m not exaggerating, today. I have a friend who showed only English movies to his baby on television. At the age of two he was saying words in English and Spanish indistinctly. Today her son is bilingual and has served in senior positions.  

1. The first advantage of your child learning English, from an early age, is that he will speak it as if it were his mother tongue.
2. Bilingualism has positive effects on intelligence. Creativity is stimulated and children are more adept at solving problems.
3.  Your little one will be aware that the world is not all the same, that there are other points of view. He will be more understanding, tolerant, and respectful of people from other cultures.
4.  Your interpersonal relationships will be more fluid. You will have more confidence in yourself.
5. Your brain circuits will be programmed to learn other languages.
6. You will learn more about your native language and can use it more effectively.
7.   If you take him on a trip, he will enjoy more than other monolingual children because he will have no problems communicating. In all hotels and restaurants in the world, employees who deal with the public speak English.
8. Your child can study at any university, both in our country and abroad. You will have the opportunity to access more current and complete information; learn about the latest scientific advances since most academic and technological texts are written in English. More than 56% of Internet sites are edited in English. In second place is German with 8%.
9.  The doors of the world of work will open to you. Because you will have a better education, you will get a better job. Your job opportunities will multiply, both in government agencies and in multinational companies, if you speak English.
10. A third of the world’s companies require staff who speak this language of international communication, commerce and finance. In addition, it is the official language of many international organizations such as the European Union, United Nations, Organization of American States, NATO, or UNESCO.

When it’s time for fun, you can watch movies in English without having to read subtitles, often poorly translated. You will also enjoy the content, provided by the Internet, not available in Spanish. Will be great!  

Start teaching at home

First of all, if you have a baby, do what many parents have done: put on TV only children’s movies, shows and series in English. When he is older, he listens to audio books and songs every day, no matter if you repeat them (children love to hear the same story again, and repetition increases the chances of success).

It will be useless for your child to go to English class and, when he gets home, lose all contact with this language until the next class. Ask him to sing you the songs he learned in school or high school. Practice them with him and do it for fun. 

Buy him storybooks in both languages. There are many English game apps for Smartphone. Make it fun for him. You should never force him to learn, the important thing is that your child always listens to it and becomes familiar with English by way of recreation, little by little, without haste. This will improve your pronunciation. The younger they start to study, the better their command of the language will be.