AGAINST ESSAY
In Catalonia two languages are spoken, Catalan and Spanish, witch enriches our culture as a country. But not all the people has the same opinion.
On the one hand, one of the main advantages of being bilingual is that you have more capacity to learn another language or the possibility to find a more qualified job. In addition, in the case of Catalonia, apart from having its own language the Catalan, there is also the official language of the Spain's state, the castellan. Indeed, a language spoken in various regions of the world and one of the most important of it. This reality enables us to communicate with a wider number of people, keeping the language and culture of our region.
On the other hand, some people think that being bilingual also has disadvantages. They believe that speak two languages, when they are closed related, makes that you could mix both lenguajes and speak badly. In a certain way it is not completely wrong, because demands much more to master two languages than just one, but when you achieve the competence on both languages the rewards of knowing well more than one idiom is evident.
From my point of view, it is not a great barrier to communicate in Catalonia. I have testify several times people speaking Catalan and the other one Spanish and being able to understand each other perfectly without having great problems. It is only a matter of getting used to it and also to have good will to adapt to the circumstances.
In conclusion, I think that being bilingual brings more rewards than inconveniences. It allows you to meet and communicate with more people, to travel around to places with confidence, to know better other cultures and their history, and so on.
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