IT’S nice to learn a second language as early as when you are young. If you are the son or the daughter of a diplomat, then your family may be placed in another country where the culture is definitely different from your home country. When I was in second grade, I was forced to go to Japan and transfer my schooling there. Even though I was enrolled in an international school, I was privileged to have learned Niponggo and the Japanese characters. They were pretty daunting at first but later on, I have come to adjust to learn the language. Besides, Hollywood movies such as Lost in Translation are my mere inspiration to move on learning the new language. At first, I honestly cried and cried of being awkward playing with my Japanese friends but soon, I slowly found out that they were a nice bunch.

After Japan, I was sent to the Philippines or more accurately, my father was. There was nothing else to do as both my parents had decided not to be in my native Spain while my father was busy abroad. There in the Philippines, I learned how to say a few Tagalog words and even some vocabularies in their regional dialects such as Cebuano and Maranao. I also learned some Higaonon words which were spoken by people who had really retained their native ways. After our family’s Philippine stint, I was sent to Thailand and I had really had a jolly good time there learning Thai and also eating Thai delicacies such as frogs. That was a bit similar to the exotic food that I have tasted in the Philippines such as fish paste, whole roasted pork (which they treated as the Thanksgiving turkey), sweet rice cakes and chicken fetuses.

My whole Asian soiree was really a success. I had a jolly good time learning how to raft in the Philippines, I had experienced swimming and even skinny dipping with glowing planktons all around me in the nighttime beach in Phuket, I had experienced deep sea diving in Palawan, and I had experienced eating rice balls at McDonald’s outlets in Tokyo. After my father’s stint in Asia, he was moved to Paris. It was there in Paris where I experienced a very relaxed world. Everybody was moving at his or her own pace and nobody was there to annoy or disturb you. Everybody was busy yet appeared calm in their affairs. Everybody was speaking French of course and it was another struggle for me. I took it as a challenge because they said that French people are the most intellectual persons in the world.

They also said that French is the most romantic language in the world. This is not just a metaphor I believe because French derives from the Roman language of old. French dining is where I also had passion on even if the restaurants here sometimes have very expensive menus laid out. There was even one joke circulating here that if you can’t pronounce the menu, you certainly can’t afford it. That was a decades-old expression but it still rings a bell in these modern times. Yet alone, my experience in France was not limited to the hustle and bustle of the city life. It was there in the Mediterranean coastlines of France that I experienced serenity with the simple fishermen around me.

As a parent, you don’t want to let your child grew lucking with self confidence and perseverance. Of course you want to make a difference in order for them to have confidence and guts in mingling with their friends in your own country and abroad. In order for them to find and befriends with different countries as well as learning foreign language, it is better for you to help them stand on their own and learn to live independently. This could help your child mold themselves into what they really are. By sending your kids to abroad immersing to learn a foreign language, you can assure that your kids before could become more mature to handle tough situations that comes their ways.

There is several language programs nowadays intended specifically for teenagers only. If you want your kids to learn the basics of the French language, this is your time to send them to France. There are summer programs specifically for teens in France. This program is open to teenagers with the ages of 14-18 years of age. The teenagers could leave with one family as their host; it will already include their meals. This strategy could help the kids to adopt the language that they are learning as well as the culture they have. During the months of June, July and September were the months you can send your kids to France. Your kids would eventually learn French language with the program length of 2, 3, 4 weeks. The objective of this program is to let the students become mature, independent, traveling to/from school after the class and during weekends. The program also gives the teenagers to experience living and studying abroad away from their parents, mingling with friends having different culture but the same age level, and setting them the freedom to explore under the supervision of course of some experienced staffs. However, though the teenagers are given the chance to become independent, they are still given the curfew within 24 hours.

Aside from that, learning a foreign language in Cote d’Azur is full of adventure and pleasure. Roaming around Nice as the Capital of Cote d’Azur is an amazing trip. As the fifth largest city if France, your kids will surely love your idea of sending them in with the country of France. Your kids will surely love the fine architecture and culture they have. Nice were abound with ruins, museums, boutiques, and a hearty café culture where your kids and even you could be allured with the captivating view Nice has. Your kids would never regret of accepting your plans because their foreign language abroad is worthy, they will both learn as well as enjoy the surroundings where they land. And maybe your kids even forget that they still have homelands to go home with. Your teenagers will love the beaches of Nice while studying their French foreign language, through a lot of outing that their administrator will allow your teenagers can find their best of friends that they have not found in your mainland. Strong bonding could also be created with your teenagers and friends in France.

There are other people who did not take seriously of learning the second language. Without even thinking that learning for a second language is the way of opening a variety of opportunities in life, they are thinking that learning for a second language is just a mere of speaking another dialect without its benefits. Well, actually learning for a second language could benefit you wherever you go. It is a plus factor for a person if he/she has learning a second language especially if the language she/he is learning is the universal language English. Therefore you better engage yourself for a second language and expect to have in coming opportunities that awaits you.

It is not yet late for you of learning a second language particularly in English; there are schools available whichever in this country that offers a second language course. That is if you are cordial enough to take the course and become one of the successful personalities around the world. However, if you don’t have enough time for that matter or committing yourself in a typical school building, then you can acquire your second language enrolling in the internet. There are second languages teaching available in the net. All you have to do is search for its sites and read all the information needed. Most of the schools posting a second language in the internet are one of the prestigious universities around the world. There is no doubt for you to feel since these schools are proven legitimate. However, we keep on thinking of being wise. Although most of the information in the net is quite trusted there is still other site that tries to spam you. Therefore beware of it; you should be keen enough to choose which you think the best and proven prestigious online universities.

And if you have kids with you, better to expose them with a second language so that they also have a bright future in life. Children are more articulate than to adults they can easily grasp whatever information feed to them. That is why it is important that they learned as early as they are in order for them to enhance it well during their adult level. Though learning for a second language in your level is quite hard already, don’t feel discourage and hopeless to learn. Constant practice and being patience to learn the language is all you need to do in order to have a fluent second language. However, if you are quite lazy and easily irritating your second language would never mold better. The basic tactics in learning for a second language is having enough patience and perseverance. Constant practice is also recommended, expects always that learning for a second language is quite hard but eventually you will learn to appreciate it and loves to speak through it even in your daily routine in life.

Remember, engaging yourself for a second language is letting yourself explore and choose the best opportunities life’s brings you. So don’t close doors of learning a second language since you are also closing the best opportunities that wait for you.