If we are talking about bilingual, it should force us to get knowledge of two languages. In Cambridge online dictionary, bilingual means able to use two languages equally well. It means you should be fluent in at least one foreign language. So why should are we being bilingual? It is because we can gain further knowledge of other countries. Another benefit of being bilingual is having good communication with most people in the world.
Communication is the process of transferring information. According to McFarland communication is, “a process of meaningful interaction among human beings. More specifically, it is the process by which meanings are perceived and understandings are reached among human beings.” Newman and summer defined communication as “an exchange of facts, ideas, opinions or emotions by two or more persons.” Communication has an important position in human life because we can understand each other whether by speaking or writing.
As we know, communication is one of the important things to share information or messages from one person to one or more people. Then, to reaching more receivers of around the world, we have to know the language that almost all people know, that is English. English is like a bridge for us to getting information easily. And from English, we can enhance the opportunity to study, living, and working abroad. We also can introduce our own language and making the people around the world know about our culture deeply.
Being bilingual also influences us into an active person because of the activities that we usually do in learn more than one language. It means the bilingual people will be better communicators and make them accepted new changes easily. A bilingual learner probably can develop relations easily because of their ability to communicate well. It is why being bilingual has many important sides in communication.
Eventually, a bilingual person will get so many advantages. Communication will do well if we know some foreign languages well. For me, the more we learn, the more we will know. Reach the whole world by languages. So, let’s start to learn another language.
Maulida Lintang Panggayuh | Member EASA 2020 (SAILABIA)
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