Are You Bilingual? (Conversation Club)

This week the ‘Thinking in English’ Community is talking about bilingualism!

Many people around the world are considered to be bilingual, but what does that actually mean? How well do you need to be able to speak a second language to be bilingual?

Different people have different answers to this question. What’s more, bilingualism is more common in certain countries and regions, and some people are even trilingual!

Here are 10 conversation questions to get you talking about bilingualism!

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Conversation Questions: Are You Bilingual?

1. Do you consider yourself bilingual? Which languages do you speak?

2. How do you define bilingualism?

3. Do many people from your country or region speak more than one language?

4. How well are foreign languages taught in schools in your country? 

5. How important is bilingualism for a successful career?

6. Is English the most useful second language worldwide?

7. Did you grow up speaking multiple languages? What is the advantage of such an upbringing?

8. When did you start learning English? Does it get harder the older you get?

9. What are your language learning aspirations?

10. “A different language is a different vision of life.”

– Federico Fellini

What do you think of this quote?

Vocabulary List:

• Consider
  • to believe someone or something to be, or think of him, her, or it as something
• Define
  • to say what the meaning of something, especially a word, is
• Foreign
  • belonging or connected to a country that is not your own
• Worldwide
  • existing or happening in all parts of the world
• Multiple
  • very many of the same type, or of different types
• Upbringing
  • the way in which you are treated and educated when young, especially by your parents, especially in relation to the effect that this has on how you behave and make moral decisions
• Aspiration
  • something that you hope to achieve

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