The National Teachers College School of Arts, Science, and Technology NAME: Irish Claire Bagaforo DATE: 06/01/2022 SECTION: 1.5 CYCLE #: 3 ESSAY/SPEECH TYPE: Informative TOPIC: Multilingualism PROFESSOR: Diana Christine Sena Limbo The Advantage of Multilingualism in Intellectual Proficiency “Multilingualism, as the vehicle of a new linguistic dispensation, plays a central role in it. We apply the metaphor ‘edge’ to explore the way multiple languages are deployed in, and intensively shape, the postmodern world. “Stated by Aronin et al., 2016 in Spacetimes of Multilingualism. Having an ability to memorize and understand multiple languages can be a huge gap to everyone since their brain is different to others. From ancient times until nowadays, it is considered as an advantage not only in academics but also in the working field. The cognitive skills of a multilingual can enhance since they are being able to communicate and blend into different nationalities as well as expanding their perspectives because language is also incorporated with the culture. Multilingualism defined as a condition of being able to learn, write, read and understand several languages by a person or certain group of people living in geographical area. There are some countries that have been able to speak various of language depending on what region or state they are residing. This condition is somehow related to polyglotism in because of the language. Henceforth, studies shows that multilingualism can make someone’s brain stronger because it contains high substance of gray matter that has the most amount of brain neurons and synapses. All throughout the years, verbal and non-verbal language passed from generations and generations. Even from colonized countries, their language was also derived by the conquerors to the point that the native and colonial language are combined together in some regions of their country. For instance, Philippines is one of the countries that had been colonized for 333 years and even pre-historic times, this country already have several forms of language used in different cases such as in administration and meditation, words may not be the vernacular of the commoners or civilians because it was expressed differently yet they can understand the message in some extent even though they cannot apply it on their communication this. Hence, National Teachers College 629 J. Nepomuceno Street, Quiapo, Manila 7345601 | www.ntc.edu.ph | support@ntc.edu.ph The National Teachers College School of Arts, Science, and Technology receptive multilingualism can be practiced by people although it doesn’t need to perfect. After the Spaniards came and colonized Philippines, their native language, Spanish was imposed during the times when priests taught the ancestors back then. And now, in some parts of this country uses Spanish to communicate also there are Filipino words derived from Spanish. To sum up, Philippines is considered as multilingual nation. Language plays a huge role in a certain country; it forms and evolve depends on the history and its culture. In addition, politics can affect the language by declaring the official ones even though they are linguistically diverse. Based on World Atlas (2017) Russia ranked first on the most multilingual countries in the world, they officially have 24 languages across all republic. Historically, their language emerged by the 10th century which is divided into three subgroups: western, southern, and eastern. In the Slavic language family, Russian and the other language is part of East-Slavic subgroup rooted in Indo-European family. Their official languages are Buryat, Altay, Tyvan, Khakas, Sakha, Adygean, Bashkir, Ingush, Kabardian, Balkar, Tatar, Kalmyk, Abaza, Cherkess, Karachay, Nogai, Mari, Mordvin, Komi, Ossetian, Udmurt, Chechen, Chuvash, and Russian. Considering that they may still have other unregistered languages, having multiple forms that came from Cyrillic alphabet can be a huge asset, it may sound difficult but learning and understanding alphabet that is closely based in Greek is definitely worth it. Next on the list is India, ranked second with having 23 official languages in a row. Sources: Cite a Book Online Format: Last, F. M. (Year Published) Book. Retrieved from URL Examples: James, H. (2009). The ambassadors. Retrieved from http://books.google.com National Teachers College 629 J. Nepomuceno Street, Quiapo, Manila 7345601 | www.ntc.edu.ph | support@ntc.edu.ph
