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Little English Brains
� Teacher Marta Ayala � Teacher Marta Ayala García� Teacher Magdalena Fernández Tejada� Teacher Marina Sotodosos Cebrián� Teacher Irene Cuesta Redondo
Learn and have fun with us!
From 10 to 17
INDEX
�10 reasons to study languages
� 6 ways to learn a foreignlanguagelanguage
� 10 benefits of learning a foreignlanguage at an early age
� Languages and culture
� Choosing a new culture
� Advices
They learn very well how to pronounce because
their sensitive ears pay lot attention at that.
They start learning with songs and games that
make it very funny.
One of the most important things is that they learn
like it is a toy.
Nowadays English is very important to enter in a
school and the ones who have highest levels have
more opportunities.
10 BENEFITS OF LEARNING A FOREIGN
LANGUAGE AT AN EARLY AGE
more opportunities.
Kids have an innate ability to acquire the rules of any
language, that ability disappears by adulthood.
They start understanding earlier.
The children who are bilingual read better in
both languages.
They can go to any country without any problem of
not understanding.
Children who know two languages have more grey matter in their brains. The gray matter is responsible
for processing information.
They can have better relations with others
children.
TRAVELLING:If you decide to go to the United Kingdom or the USA, it’s better to know some English, because you could communicate with the people there.
INTERESTING FACTS:It’s important to learn languages, because it’s the way to know new things.
JOB OPORTUNITIES:If you learn some language you can
10 REASONS TO STUDY LANGUAGES
If you learn some language you can become an English teacher or French teacher (depending on the language)
BUSINESS:If you learn languages you can create a exchange business.
STUDIES:If you plan to study at a foreign university, college or school, you'll need a good level of the local language
FREE TIME:If you learn languages you can read magazines or books, or you can watch the news of other countries.
CULTURE:Other reason to learn a
COMPARISON:Sometimes learning a foreign language helps you to understand your own language and culture better through comparison, or through the relationship between both languages.
Other reason to learn a language is that you access to other cultures.
IDEA:
If you know languages, you’ll know the way in which other people think.
FRIENDS:You can make new friends in other countries.
READING MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS
If you read in a foreign languageyou will be able tounderstand new words
WATCHING FILMS AND TV
You will listen how others
6 WAYS TO LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUGE
You will listen how othersspeak English and you willknow how others intonate
the words
LISTENING TO MUSIC
You will know the feelingsof the people, and listen how others pronouncethe words.
VISITING A COUNTRY
You can also learn a languageby visiting other country, youcan see how their culture isand you can talk with peopleto improve the language you
are learningFINDING A
FOREIGN FRIENDYou can find a foreign friend and foreign friend and you can teach himyour language and he can teach youhis/her language
TAKING CLASSESWhen you have free time you can go to anacademy or particular classes to know thegrammar and vocabularyof the language
DOES LANGUAGE INFLUENCE CULTURE?
Do the languages we speak shape the way we think?
Do they express our thoughts and the way that we have for
thinking?
Russian speakers, who have more words for light and dark blues, are better
able to visually discriminate shades of
blue
According to Benjamin Lee Whorf and his theory of linguistic relativity, language shapes the way we think,
and determines what we think about. He believed that depending on the language that we speak we on the language that we speak we
see the world
Holy Roman Emperor Charles V spoke 6 languages fluently and
said the following:
I speak Italian to ambassadors,
French to women, German to
soldiers, English to my horse and
Spanish to God.
A man is as many times a man,
as many languages he knows
CHOOSING A NEW LANGUAGE
AVAILABILITY
You Must Choose a language that offers the necessary recourses for studying it. You have to look for a language that you can find someone who can give you lessons about it, like English, French, Spanish and German
USEFULNESS
You must choose a language with a large number of speakers, and which is spoken in many countries. The most usefull languages in order are the ones in the graphic
DIFFICULTY
For Spanish speakers, the five Easiest Foreign Languages are:
Portuguese
Italian
French
Romanian
English
Languages in demand
by employers
If you want to learn a language in order to improve your employment,
the list below gives you an idea of which languages are in demand.
Americas: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Japanese
Western Europe: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch,
Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Greek, Welsh, Russian,
Japanese, Mandarin, Arabic…
ADVICES TO LEARN A
LANGUAGE
Spend The Time
The more part youspend with the
language the fasteryou will learn it.
Listen And Read Every Day
Listen and read 1 hour per day, try also to read whatyou are listening.
you will learn it.
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