Bilingual Among Immigrants

The United States has been significantly impacted by migration. The year “2013 had a great impact with 41.3 million immigrants living in the U.S”. Having such a high quantity of immigrants and different dialects being spoken one would expect it to become a norm. However, English is still the main language that everyone is expected to speak and comprehend. This becomes a challenge for immigrants; who are now pressured to learn a completely new language.

For those immigrants, who come to the U.S., with young children are still in luck. Having their children begin primary school will benefit the children in learning the language. Additionally, the children are surrounded by the language for about eight hours during school and they begin picking up the dialect. Although this may be true, what are the effects? Can being bilingual affect the children maintain their native language in their household? On the other hand, what about the children who do not get introduced to the language at an early age? Despite, their circumstance they still manage to master the English language what are the outcomes for those children. Does being bilingual have

I grew up in a Spanish-speaking family. I attended school in the U.S. since pre-k and I also had an older sister and brother who already spoke English. Two factors that I believe helped me in learning and comprehending the English language. I sometimes struggle having to bounce back and forth from each language. Additionally, I have also experienced perks of being bilingual. I actually obtained my first job as a translator. Most people are told that employers are more likely to hire bilingual speakers. However, this is all that is being said about bilingual speakers. I have not been aware of people having conversations of the effects of being a bilingual speaker. For this reason, I believe it is a subject that is both interesting and not heard much