For or against multiple languages?

Romania
February 12, 2017 12:31pm CST
Regarded as a single language is enough? Some may have native language English, others are having it learn as "modern language". From my point of view, you need at least 3 foreign languages, especially if you travel. What do you think?
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@sabtraversa (13072)
• Italy
12 Feb 17
I want the whole world to speak English well. I know pretending Italian would be too much.
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• Romania
13 Feb 17
I wish to learn Italian. It resembles much with Romanian. ^.^
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@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
12 Feb 17
I feel that all children should learn at least one other language and should be taught by people who have that language as their own mother tongue.
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@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
12 Feb 17
@Norisor How many languages do you speak?
@Beatburn (4287)
• Philippines
12 Feb 17
Right. The ability to speak more than one language is always an advantage.
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• Romania
12 Feb 17
That's a good opinion!
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@besweet (9861)
• Ireland
12 Feb 17
I learned English in parallel with my mother tongue and it helped a lot, I think that children should start early with the languages.The more languages you learn, the best. I want to learn Italian and Spanish now, I have started online classes for Italian but I haven't been following the program properly.
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@besweet (9861)
• Ireland
13 Feb 17
@Norisor thanks. It is hard to succeed when it is self-paced. It would be more efficient to attend an offline class or get private lessons.
• Romania
13 Feb 17
I had started something similar, but I haven't done too much. I hope you succeed!
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@marlina (154165)
• Canada
12 Feb 17
The more languages one person has the better. There is nothing negative about speaking more than one language, it is a wonderful asset.
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@sabtraversa (13072)
• Italy
12 Feb 17
Unless you start to mix and confuse them, especially when they're similar. Me: Il y-a TRE... (There are three...) French Teacher: TROIS, tre is Italian, not French. Me inside: But I didn't say the number in Italian, I said it in Norwegian... Oh, that's the same. I'll never forget that oral test.
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• Finland
12 Feb 17
3 can be a lot to learn and hard to maintain if you don't use it often but I think the more languages you can speak the more you can communicate when travelling
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@pureme (1526)
12 Feb 17
Yes you are right, I need someone to teach me French, I like the language.
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@pureme (1526)
13 Feb 17
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• Romania
13 Feb 17
I love French.
12 Feb 17
I think it all depends on your goal.
@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
12 Feb 17
Children in primary school don't have goals. If they wait until they are old enough to have one then it imight be too late to learn more languages.
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12 Feb 17
@mysdianait I spoke in a general way. You addressed a specific topic, then my answer would certainly be different.
@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
12 Feb 17
@TheInvisibleMan I am beginning to thnk you only read the titlle The content of the post gave enough to discuss more.
@syeow1 (5137)
• India
12 Feb 17
Yes .I also think that.
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• Romania
13 Feb 17
Thank you! ^.^
• Philippines
13 Feb 17
I agree! because I speak 3 languages daily, first is our native language which is my provincial language the "kapampangan" second is our national language which the "tagalog" third of-course but not the least "English" we speak these three language daily, not just a single but sometimes a combination of two or three, for example " hi good morning kamusta kana?"(a combination of english and tagalog).
• Romania
13 Feb 17
Haha. It seems to me extraordinary to know those languages. Thank you!
• Philippines
13 Feb 17
@Norisor well those combinations of language has been exposed or we spoke since birth or they called it mother tongue.