for and against judith rial

Nowadays, nearly everyone communicates in two dialects, the one from their nation and an outside one. This might be exceptionally pragmatic from various perspectives, yet there are additionally a few disservices.

From one perspective, being bilingual gives you numerous chances. The more dialects you talk smoothly, the more alternatives of correspondence you have. This is essential for voyaging, business, socializing, and improving your social skills. Besides, communicating in another dialect encourages knowing different points of view from all over the world about what is happening in order to get more knowledge. What is more, being bilingual makes somebody stimulate his neurons at the time on changing between one and the other.

Then again, even the ones that communicate in fluidly the two dialects can commit colossal errors because of the reality of being bilingual. That is on the grounds that individuals will in general stir up between them, such as utilizing structures that are not right, including pointless words, confounding the name of something very similar.

To summarize, I accept that being bilingual is unquestionably increasingly valuable for us that knowing just a single language, in spite of certain bothers, and as more languages you know, better.

For and Against essay

Nowadays, anybody can produce music and sell it. Usually, it comes by the hand of a record company, but not always.

On one hand, I consume Spotify Premium every day, I use this app more than Instagram or Twitter and I also buy Cd's and vinyls. For me, there's no problem with paying for listening to music and I think it's worthy, I'ts a way to show your support to musicians and to show admiration or respect for all the work the have been doing.
On the other hand, I think that the record companies abuse of the musicians and they use to keep a big quantity of the money the musician won. I understand people who doesn't buy music for that reason or because it's very expensive. Not everybody can afford paying every month for listening to music, but it is underrated. Some people say that they don't want to pay for music because is expensive but they pay for other platforms like Netflix or sports channels.

To conclude, I don't see the problem with paying for music but the companies should keep less money than they do to give it to  the real artists.

For and against essay- MingRong Zhu

Nowadays, learning more than one language is a vital skill that allows us to interact with other people from different places through a faster way.

On the one hand, I think this can cause you a lot of benefits, this benefits are that you can found easier a job because there are a lot of companies that look for workers who can communicate without problems with clients of other countries, and I also think that the bilingual workers are able to get higher wages. Another point is that if you are bilingual you could have more opportunities to learn about other cultures and respect them, and moreover to improve your knowledge getting new values.

But on the other hand, I also think that there are some disadvantages to be bilingual, one of them is to mix language because people tend to use whatever words that they find easily to communicate with, and furthermore I think that mixing pronunciation could be another disadvantage cause by the dominance of one language over the other one.

In conclusion, I personally think that being bilingual is a good way of learning new cultures and improving your knowledge.

For and against essay - Marta Caudet

Option 1

Nowadays we live in a world where knowing languages is increasingly valued and even in several jobs you depend on it. Many people in recent years are learning new languages. What are the advantages and disadvantages of being bilingual?

One advantage of being bilingual is that they have a greater facility to learn a new language, assimilate new sounds and signs, but also new verbal constructions. The change between two languages develops the parts of the brain that control thinking activities. They can find work more easily, because they have a virtue that others don’ t have and also they have the door open to meet new cultures and socialize much more easily than the rest.

However, being bilingual can cause the interference between the two languages and cause them to incorporate words into the other language or around. Another disadvantage is that they can commit a greater number of misspellings in case the two languages look alike.

In my opinion, I think that in the end everything that is knowledge only brings you positive things. So, that all the advantages overcome the small disadvantages of knowing two languages

For and against essay- Marina Nieto

Option 1

There are many people who today speak two languages ​​perfectly, that is, they are bilingual, but that can have as many advantages as disadvantages.

The advantages of knowing how to speak two languages ​​is the flexibility to communicate with more people from other cities.  You also have more chances of finding work because you have both one language and the other, in addition to the advantage that you can speak two languages ​​and other people do not.  And you can get to have more knowledge and culture of languages.

On the other hand, the disadvantages it has is that you can confuse some words and express yourself badly when communicating, you can imply things that you don't really want to say.  Also, there is always a language that you control more than another and can be very confusing because you think of one and while you are translating what you want to say in the other language.

In conclusion, knowing two languages ​​has its advantages and disadvantages, both at work and when communicating with someone, it is important to know languages ​​and have a high level.

Option 2 for and against - Alessandra

Buy or pirate it

Music was, is and will be forever something necessary for all people: as a passion, job, hobby, for relax etc. And now with the internet, music has no limits. But music is not only about art, it is also about money and copyright.

Althought people can pirate music and this is frowned upon by some people, this has allowed the music to spread even further. The same with officials apps like Youtube, where you can legally listen to music for free without limits, but even if it is free, because the adds and the video views the musicians don't lose so much money and they become known.

Even so, it is true that lots of people prefer just download the music for free than buying it or maybe because they can not afford to pay for every artist the listen to, and this can lower album sales.

On balance, I would say that because the music is available to everyone that it continues to spread and that music is not just about profits.

for and against essay option 1- Clara X.

Does languages improve our lifes?

On the world, there are lots of people and lots of cultures too. That leads us to think about different cultures, that mean different languages with many differences due to the different registers to express ourselves in different ways.

On the one hand, learn languages keep opened  or even open new doors, so, they can guarantee your future. Furthermore, language is a useful tool to move and travel to site you have never been. Being able to understand indications, written or spoken, will make easier your travels or your meetings.

The last thing is that learning a language and adopting it, will make you to understand easily other language rules.

On the other hand, there are a lot of languages some ones very similar and others too much different to believe. Learning a language can take you a lot of time and its a slow process.

If you have learnt a lot of different languages, you will maybe make a lot of mistakes due to mixing more than one language.

To sum up, languages are a useful tool, however, you won't be able to learn loads of them so, in my opinion, learning two or three is moderate and can help you tu understand better the meaning off everything among you

For and Against Essay Option 2 - Laia Llop

Buy or Pirate Music?

Nowadays, a lot of people prefers pirating music than buying it as the prices for music are more expensive than it should be. However, is this true?

On the one hand, it is true that currently, the music is becoming more and more expensive and not every song worths the price it is given. Besides, the price of music is increasing as nowadays a lot of music is online and it can be pirated very easily.

On the other hand, even though pirating is an "easy" way to listen to some music without paying it, the quality is not comparable in a lot of times. In addition, with pirating, the risk of having viruses or other computer or mobile problems is high.

Furthermore, paying music is very important, as a lot of people depend on how the sellings go. If the music is pirated, it would mean a lot of losses for the record companies and artists, and these people would have worked for nothing.

To sum up, personally, I think that not only music should be paid, as a lot of people have been working a lot of time on these projects.

For and against essay - Paula Lázaro

Option 1: 

Nowadays, it is very common for some people to speak two languages, especially schools where they are taught in several languages since children. But this have advantages and disadvantages.

On the one hand, these people have the capacity to ability two languages with a high level. Furthermore, they have more vocabulary and can pass ideas from one language to another. Also, they have many opportunities in the future in other country. And, they can communicate with more people.

On the other hand, knowing two languages can lead to confusion between them and they may not fully master one of the languages.

To conclude, I am a person who speaks two languages and I think there are more advantages than disadvantages in this subject, and it is good to know more than one language.

FOR AND AGAINST - Christian Arteaga

To begin, although most people traveling on the planet are bilingual or monolingual, it should not be ruled out that one of the big problems when traveling is being able to communicate 100%, without misunderstanding. Next, we will show the advantages and disadvantages of speaking more than one language.

One of the main reasons to learn another language is that it becomes easier to communicate with others while you are traveling, and you can make friends along the way.

In the world of laboral work, it is also important as it helps you find more work a little easier, both speaking English, Spanish, French, Chinese ...

Futhermore, we must also say that learning more than one language helps retain Alzheimer's for a few years, since it exercises the brain and expands memory when exchanging the language.

One of the most common disadvantages is to confuse the language, and more if the language is like your native language. It is easy to confuse Spanish with Catalan (forget and obliterate) or Catalan and French (formatge and fromage) or even confuse concepts, such as in Spanish "Gamba" is an "animal" while in Italian it means "leg" This can cause many problems when talking to someone.

One of the most difficult things to learn another language is "Grammar" because in each language it is structured differently.

Futhermore, one of the things that can take you back is the high cost of the course ... if you finally go to an academy, for example a course to learn Korean would cost € 280 per quarter.

In conclusion, I am in favor of learning several languages by simply being able to communicate better with other people and by retaining Alzheimer's if possible.

FOR AND AGAINST - Marina Mateos

OPTION 1:

In today's world, it's well known that people pirate music but, is it right to do it? Some people argue that this should end but some others claim that companies already have enough money. 

To begin with, listening to music from pirate webs or downloading it without paying it is a way for us not to spend a high amount of money. With this last part in mind, we must say that there are people who cannot afford to pay for music and it is not very fair that because of their economy they cannot enjoy music. Furthermore, with the idea on the introduction, i should say that some prices are to expensive and this let see that companies only want music for money and do not see the singer's effort to do everything because a lot of this money goes to the record company and not to the artist, of course, there are sometimes that this does not happen but they are few.

On the other hand, we have the part that if we buy the music the artist can see how many people are enjoying his music, besides the record company will see that this singer is worth it and then it will make his career continue.

On balance, I  believe that althought this is wrong, downloading music illegally is better. There are many 

ways to show the record label the taste we have in your artist

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OPTION 2:

Speaking different languages ​​has many practical benefits that are very helpful in an increasingly globalized world. Despite all the benefits, bilingualism has advantages, but does it also have disadvantages?

First, academics have seen bilingualism as an advantage for a developed brain. Learning and speaking a different language exposes us to a different world and improves our perception.

In my opinion, one of the reasons why it is important to know more than one language is that it increases cultural awareness and allows you to communicate with different people and improve your communication skills.

On the other hand, when bilingual people speak it is not unusual for them to mix different languages ​​when they have a conversation and can even create new non-existent words.

In addition, bilinguals can use expressions in one language that could have a different connotation in another and could be offensive.

As far as I am concerned, bilingualism is a good and useful thing, whether in labor or social issues, but it is also a tool to learn about other cultures.

For and against essay - Dana Vargas (option 2)

Music for people is very important since most people listen to it even if it is not the same type but either walking down the street or by public transport we are listening to it, but each person listens to it differently either by buying or pirating it.

First of all, many people think that buying music is much safer, there are many online stores to buy both the complete album and the individual songs, these stores offer you excellent sound quality, and being a safe oagin people trust They, and as in recent years, everything is downloaded to the mobile phone, prices are lower than in a physical store. Another advantage is that you can find all the songs you want since each person has a different music taste. This also makes both companies and artists get more money.

On the other hand, many people prefer to hack them because although it is not so safe it is free and they think that when they buy them the discographies earn more money than they need, sometimes when trying to find a song to download it in a pirate way it is very difficult since many of the songs are not on the page where you are looking for them however the songs purchased are not only the ones that contribute things to the careers of the artists since they are the ones that most people download and help to raise the careers of some.

In summary, I think it is better to hack the songs since not all people have or think about spending money to buy a song, and although you cannot find all the songs you are looking for if they are the majority.

For and against essay- Laia Carré

FOR AND AGAINST ESSAY

OPTION 1

Nowadays speaking two languages ​​has many more advantages than speaking only one.

The first advantage is when it comes to finding work. When someone shows up for a job interview with their resume, the boss will consider all the titles that a person has. The most important are languages ​​and speaking more than one will benefit you from getting the job.

Also speaking more than one language allows you to communicate better with people in a place other than your country.

Finally, the disadvantage of speaking more than one language would be, for example, when speaking that many times, like me, a word you don't remember as it is said in the language you want to say.

For and against essay - Emma Cera

MUSIC PIRACY

Some people argue that we should put an end to music piracy. However, other disagree with this statement. The objective of this essay is to express the pros and cons of paying for music

Many people are for music piracy because it is free and it can be shared with friends and family. In addition, assorted mixes can be created according to illegal user's likes.

Nevertheless, if we decide to become owerselves music pirates, all the professionals involved in music business are losing money. Besides, we must consider the danger of dawnloading lillegal music. For example, your computer can be infected by a dangerous virus which can desde your hard disk.

In my opinion, I'm against music piracy because it is the livelihood of many musicians. To sum up, nobody has the right to steal from artists' creativity and effort.

For and against - Paula Vera

For and against: Do you buy music or do you pirate it?

Its clear that some people can't live without music, it's a part of the day for others or even a escape from real world. But how do we get all this music? There are many options and they have advantages and disadvantages.

On the one hand, people think that paying for music is a way to support their favorite artists, otherwise, they have fewer options to feel closer to them because buying a song it's more cheaper than going to a concert or buying their merchandising. Other advantage is that the smallest artists will receive what they deserve for their effort, therefore, they can improve their songs quality.

On the other hand, some people find that paying for music ends being too expensive if you really like it or enjoy it because artists won't put their songs for 15cts or at €1. Furthermore, people think that they couldn't discover new styles or artists because it would't be worth paying for something which ended up not being as good as you thought.

To sum up, paying for listening music means that some people will not be able to pay for it and they just could enjoy music in certain moments. I strongly think that music changes our lives, it can match with our feelings and make us feel better so it's a good thing that we can get it easily, even so, the option of paying for it it's still there in case you want to support an artist.

For and Against Essay – Mercè Pérez (Option 2)

Nowadays pirating music is much easier than we can believe, it is also true that there are people who pays for what they want to consume. But what are the advantages and disadvantages of pirating or paying for music?

First of all, when we are going to pirate a song we have to take in count that the artist that have made it is not going to have any kind of reward for its job. Moreover, it should be considered that if everybody hacked the songs we listen to, the music industry will get ruined.

On the other hand, it is understandable that music has quite high prices that not everybody can afford, and that’s a reason why people pirates music. This can be the reason why music is so expensive, to make sure they don’t lose profits.

To conclude, I have always paid for the music I listen to because I think that if the artist spends time doing the song that I want to listen he or her have the right to be recompensed. And it also true that when you buy a product it usually has a better quality.

For and against essay – Mercè Pérez (Option 1)

It is known that humans developed the capacity of speak thousand years ago. Moreover we have improve in it field until today that there are more languages and dialects than territories in the world. But what are the advantages and disadvantages of being bilingual?

First of all, we have to think that who knows more than one language has more possibilities to get a job than someone that only speaks his mother language. Apart from that, it is scientifically proven that people who talk minimum two languages are less likely to suffer mental illness.

On the other hand, there are also negative consequences. Being bilingual or multilingual increase the possibility of not achieving a good speech. And it is also true that when you are learning a foreign language as a child, you are grouped by your age and not your level of knowledge. For this reason there are kids who are slowed down in their learning procedure, and others who are not able to keep up.

To conclude, I am in favor of being multilingual because it is true that there may be difficulties in learning it, but once you finished all you are going to find are advantages such as finding jobs more easily, or at least having more possibilities than a person who only knows one language.

FOR AND AGAINST ESSAY (Option 1) - Paula Balagué

Speaking two languages has obvious practical benefits in an increasigly globalized world. However, there are disadvantages and advantages of being bilingual, because not all aspects are positive.

On the one hand, many people believe that an important advantage of being bilingual is to have more culture and learn new languages easily, because you already have more previous knowledge about the language. For example, a person who speaks Catalan and Spanish will find it easier to learn French, because it looks a lot like Catalan, and that is one of the two languages that person speaks.

One the other hand, other people, who are usually bilinguals, believe that when they speak two languages some words confuse them and make incorrect mixtures of the two languages, because they find it difficult sometimes to differentiate which word belongs to each language. For example, there are times when bilingual people want to translate a word into the other language they speak, and they confuse and invent that word, which doesn't really exist.

To conclude, giving my opinion as a bilingual person, I think there are more advantages of being able to speak two or more languages than of being able to speak one, because it gives you more knowledge and culture, instead, being able to speak only one makes it harder for you to learn new languages.

For and against essay - Laura Herrero

FOR & AGAINST ESSAY

In our present society, almost everybody speaks at least two languages, the one from their country and a foreign one. This may be very practical in many ways, but there are also some disadvantages.

On the one hand, being bilingual gives you many opportunities. The more languages you speak fluently more options of communication you have. This is fundamental for travelling, business, finding a job and mostly to socialite, since the society wants people qualified to, at least, have a normal conversation with people that are not from the same country. Furthermore, speaking another language facilitates knowing new people and new cultures, because you can understand the situation and what they explain; something that may not be possible knowing only one language.

 On the other hand, even the ones that speak fluently both languages can make huge mistakes due to the fact of being bilingual. That is because people tend to mix up between them, like using structures that are not correct, adding unnecessary words, confusing the name of the same thing. This may seem a little bit absurd, but it could be prejudicial if you are in the middle of an important exam or writing a report for work.

Personally, not only is being bilingual an essential key for our future and opportunities, but also it is a way to learn more about each other and new things. However, we have to be enough careful if we do not want to mess up our orthography and grammar while talking or writing. To sum up, I believe that being bilingual is far more beneficial for us that knowing only one language, despite some inconveniences.

For and against / Pol Hermida

Option 2

For and against: Do you buy music or do you pirate it?

Nowadays, music is present in all aspects of our life. It’s at every corner of the world. Also, there are multiple ways to stream and download your favourite tracks, but usually you have to pay in order to use them. However, there’s people that downloads and streams music in an illegal way, and it negatively affects the artist who made the track or the record company.

On the one hand, lots of people pay in order to use music streaming services such as Spotify, Deezer, or Apple Music. Paying for these services guarantees that the artist obtains the money she/he earned according to the number of streams, so the artist can keep making music. Furthermore, paying for music also guarantees the best audio quality, so you have a better experience and you listen exactly what the artist wants you to hear.

On the other hand, other people streams and downloads music by illegal methods. These days it’s relatively easy to find websites where you can download music for free, but as the time goes by, these websites are slowly getting banned. Also, there’s an easy way where people unlocks Spotify Premium for free. All these acts affect all the artists in a negative way, and they can’t earn money for the work they’ve done.

In conclusion, although downloading music illegally it’s pretty common and normalized around the globe, people should switch their habits and start paying

FOR AND AGAINST-JOSEP CASTELLS

For quite some time now, people are increasingly getting pirated downloads of music illegally. Should people stop downloading music illegally?

In case if, one of the ways to achieve this, it would have to be to lower the prices of the discs, because if a person has the option to have expensive original music, or to obtain it for free, he will always choose the more option. economics. You could also sell music other than on discs, such as through a pen, or even through the cloud.

Downloading music illegally is more dangerous than it seems, because when you enter the file, you are opening the door to many possible viruses that can obtain your personal data, such as, the dni, your address, your mail, your location and even your bank account.

For and Against Essay- Oscar Lobo

People have long hacked different things, which is illegally opting programs, forging and distributing software, since they get much cheaper but many people who do this do not know the advantages and disadvantages of doing so, and today we will talk about the advantages and disadvantages of music piracy.

Firstly, one of the advantages that it has is that you get the same product for a lower price, since in legal stores you pay for art, design and distribution while in pirates you only pay for music. It also makes the artist more famous and new fans emerge willing to consume original albums, visit official websites and attend live presentations, for example.

On the other hand, hacking music has its disadvantages, such as poor quality, pirated CDs degrade much faster than the originals, can come with copy defects and be illegible. In addition, much government budget is spent on pursuing them. Above it is illegal, since copyright laws defend the power that only creators and phonographic producers have the right to copy and authorize copies of music-containing material.

In conclusion, for me hacking music is fine since you get the product much cheaper, but you also have to think that you are doing an illegal thing and make the author of that product not earn so much money.

For and Against Essay- Oscar Lobo

The ability to speak is one of the faculties that differentiate us from other animals. A language is a way of organizing sounds to express ideas. Human language has developed over the centuries, and that is why so many languages are spoken today, in the world there are about five thousand languages and today we will explain the advantages and disadvantages of speaking more than one language.


First of all, people who are bilingual tend to have advantages in the subsequent learning of other languages, they also have the ability to pass information from one language to another, either to gain vocabulary or to better understand the functioning of grammar, and that helps them learn easier. In addition, people who know more than one language, in the future will have an additional advantage in certain jobs, especially those with international projection.

On the other hand, being bilingual has disadvantages, such as running the risk of not reaching a satisfactory level in any of the languages and facing serious problems in the country's formal education, causing them to have pronunciation problems, grammar problems and not are accepted by society. Also being bilingual makes it difficult to express yourself, since you can confuse words between different languages and make your expression difficult.

In conclusion, for me being bilingual does not have many problems, since with the passage of time and with studies you are improving and it means that in the future you can live better or be able to travel and see the world without making it difficult.