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Throughout the centuries, the world is brought wealth of new languages, unfortunately a lot are forgotten. In Europe, there are 35 first languages spoken and 235 secondary languages, but those are forgotten with the time. Nowadays, a lot of people move to foreign country and have to learn new languages. Is it important that parents try to preserve the precedent language and keep it from dying in our own family?

Let’s start in the beginning, with some words about the article ?Languages Racing to Extinction in 5 Global ?Hotspot’ ?. This article talk about the fact that in today’s world, languages are dying and it’s true. We can see that in Australia for example, people who speak aboriginal languages and not English are excluded, and so the young people will chose to speak the language which is more helpful and don’t learn the language of their ancestry.

In France and others countries in Europe there are, as it was said in the introduction, a lot of secondary languages who are totally forgotten by young people. If they don’t learn them they will die and be just a part of the past. Sadly, in the last years, we could considerate that there is a lot of abandon of the native tongue, the parents don’t have the control, but it’s the children who make the decision. A linguistic professor said that ?Languages not being learned by children are not just endangered-there are doomed?. We can say that the children hold the languages of the future!

In the last 500 years, it is said that the half of the world’s languages are extinct. Swarthmore’s Harrison said ?when a language is lost, centuries of human thinking about animals, plants,

mathematics, and time may be lost with it?. The problem is not only the loss of a language but more than that, an entire culture goes with it!

Happily, there is a lot of family who move to foreign country who preserve the language from dying. In my family it’s not really the case; my parents want us, the children to learn English perfectly, and to them knowing ?English? is better, so they don’t really care about preserving French language. I am not agreeing with them, to me French is more important and is my native language. On the other hand I’m agreeing with the fact of being bilingual can be a plus in my future life at work. People should speak several languages not only English, because like that we can have a bigger culture and knowledge.

I have a friend who is African and she lived in Kenya, so she speaks three languages, French, English, and a dialect. Her parents push her to learn those languages because they wanted her to teach it to her future children and preserve the language in the family for centuries. That is really great because now she have a lot of knowledge and culture, and she will give it to her future generation.

To conclude, I want to say that having a universal language is a very bad idea because it will kill the others languages. We have to preserve those languages; they are like treasure and history.