For and Against essay - Laia Piqué

Speaking two languages has a lot of benefits and also disadvantages. Sometimes you can struggle in some type of situations. There are a lot of good things on being fluent on a language but there are also some handicaps on that. Firstly,speaking more than one language is beneficial because it allows you to have more vocabulary and helps you to understand other languages and other things. Something good of being bilingual is the fact that you can talk with more people from different places, it helps also to understand other people, to learn also faster some other languages that are similar. Also, it helps you with the register you have to use, for example when I was a kid I used the catalan for my family and teachers so it was more formal in some way, but I used the spanish to talk with my friends so it was more casual. On the other hand, some people think that there aren’t disadvantages of speaking two languages but there are some actually. However, there are some like for example mixing some words in some language, that creates a word that doesn’t exist and that it’s wrong. Also, there's the problem of sometime forgetting some words and no matter how hard you try to remember you just remember that word in the other language that’s useless, for example this happens to me all the time with spanish and english. To sum up, there are some disadvantages but is nice to talk more than one language because it allows you to express better.