I always want to be bilingually smart. It’s really difficult to learn foreign language, especially for Koreans to learn English. When I was a kid, I didn’t know the importance of learning foreign language and even I was not interested in it at all. So, it’s the main reason I have been getting a hard time since I started learning English. I would have studied English hard if I knew it in advance.

Anyway, by getting older and older, I have realized that the ability to several foreign languages is really important. It is obvious when we try to find a job. Of course, the recruiters require us to have a proficient skill. So, in order to survive among the competitors of job battle, we should be good at speaking foreign language. Speaking honestly, sometimes I want to curse the ‘English’ but I still want to be bilingually smart. 

Some article that I read today gives me some interesting information. “The high-level use of more than one language may actually improve early brain development.” Is that real? If it’s true, my brain is really bad. It’s too sad! It says that the most effective period of developing the capacity of learning language is between age 3 and 4. It is again devastating me because I am too old!

But there is some good news. The rule of thumb for improving in any language is just simple practice! “The more you use it, the better off you are.” says the expert. “The deficit can be compensated for with extra study.”  It means that we have to study really really hard for it.

In conclusion, the best way is that I need to practice over and over. Someone says that learning language is not only learning vocabulary and grammar but also inheriting a global consciousness that opens the mind to more than one culture or way of life Because I know I can’t go back to the time when I was a kid, I have to deal with the time that I have now to make efforts to be better off. I really want to be bilingually smart.