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Bilingualism
A multilingual person, in the broadest definition, is anyone who can communicate in more than one language, be it active (through speaking and writing) or passive (through listening and reading). More specifically, the terms bilingual and trilingual are used to describe comparable situations in which two or three languages are involved, respectively. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilingualism)
I chose this theme because I have always found it rather interesting and engaging when a person is fluent in two or more languages. For me it is even more interesting than for someone else, as I am a teacher of the English language. In this essay I am going to focus on bilingualism in adolescents and tolerance among the speakers of different languages.
I might say that I am a natural trilingual because all these three languages (Latvian, Russian and English) came to me more or less naturally. Growing up in a bilingual country, where the Latvian and the Russian languages were used simultaneously it was no problem for me to acquire both languages in the same level. In the end of the 80’s I was already an adolescent keen on new information and ideas. The only problem was that everything was in the English language – music, literature, magazines, articles, TV programs etc. So I had no other choice but to acquire that language. Step by step I started understanding the language and thus became trilingual.
Now let us look at the present situation in Latvia. The official language of the country is the Latvian language and the Russian language is not forced onto the pupils anymore. Thus it is only their choice and motivation that could influence their willingness to learn a second language. I have to mention one more important factor: as the Russian language is not the official language individuals are not surrounded by it anymore, consequently natural acquisition of the language is restricted if not completely lost. Nowadays a...
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