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  • All children should study a foreign language in school, starting in the earliest grade.

    Learning new language is important for the communication, communication is the key for career and personal success. It is a very handy skill to have. I would strongly agree that learning foreign language is important, all children starting from primary school should study foreign language.

    From the childhood, child is communicating in his/her mother language and they become fluent enough with the passage of time. Learning new languages is important for the child because from start if he/she acquire this skill than it could help future flourish career growth. Moreover, in this world where we meet different people with different language and culture communicating with them require a language skill. In this way we can explain our thoughts to them.

    World is moving towards advancement and it require a team to make it happen. Team of people from different parts of world so in order to communicate with them we acquire skill of 2nd language after mother language. Now we can travel around the world easily, and meet people from different culture. In order to spread our own culture we have to communicate our message to them in their language.

    Effective communication in the workplace need skill of different language. For example, a sales person should know more then one language as he can encounter customer from different languages. So it is therefore necessary that all children should be given a course of foreign language in school.

    In the school where foreign language study is not given preference then in the future those people experience communication gap in work places. This will affect their work, they would make errors and things won’t run smooth for them in the environment.

    So it is important that children should study foreign language from primary school, there should be proper course for this in schools as it is important for communication which leads to success.

  • INDONESIA

    Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world.Indonesia is a tropical country of more than 18,000 islands, stretching along the Equator in Southeast Asia.Most of the islands are not inhabited. The major Indonesian islands are characterized by densely forested volcanic mountains with largest number of active volcanos in the world.The major islands, in terms of population are Java, Sumatra and Bali. Major religion of a country is Islam as three-fourths of the Indonesian population professes Islam. Christians,Hindus, and Buddhists are also present in small numbers.
    Indonesia secured its independence from Dutch after World War 2 in 17 August 1945. It encompasses 33 provinces with an estimated population of over 252 million people. The nation’s capital city Jakarta.The country shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Malaysia. Indonesia is largely a rural country,The overall level of urbanization in Indonesia is low in relation to other countries with more than half of the population living in agricultural areas.
    More than 700 living languages are spoken in Indonesia, The official language is Indonesian (locally known as Bahasa Indonesia), a variant of Malay. Indonesia has about 300 ethnic groups, each with cultural identities developed over centuries, and influenced by Indian, Arabic, Chinese, and European sources. With an ancient culture informed by strong social and agricultural traditions, it includes the Javanese, Sundanese, Madurese, and Balinese peoples.
    Indonesia has the largest economy in Southeast Asia and the world’s 17th largest by nominal GDP so it is one of the emerging market economies of the world. Oil and gas, plywood, textiles, rubber, palm oil are its main exports. Jakarta, Bandung, Bali, Surabaya and Palembang are some of major cities. Indonesia is one of the biggest tourist attraction in asia due to its cultural biodiversity and diverse landscape.