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For and Against Essay

Do speaking two languages has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world? And if it has them, do speaking two languages have disadvantages?

On one hand, speaking a second language improves problem-solving, multi-tasking and decision-making. Numerous studies have found that bilingualism can improve brain functions like the ability to focus attention and perform mental tasks. Also, in an increasingly globalized world speaking two languages creates you advantages to find a work, to travel to other countries and more situations.

On the other hand, in the brain of a bilingual person there are two languages active constantly, that could make to verbal skills of a bilingual person to be weaker than persons who only speaks that language. Also bilingual person often mix the languages (as I do with catalan and spanish).

In general, I think advantages of bilingualism are bigger than it's disadvantages, so I consider everyone should learn at least two languages.

FOR and AGAINST ESSAY - Aida Candelas

Speaking two languages has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. What are these benefits? What are the main advantages and disadvantages of being bilingual?

The main advantages of being bilingual are increased mental flexibility, a greater ability to communicate, increase in metallinguistic awareness and a superiority in the development of cognitive functions related to attention and inhibition; this and among other things are the positive aspects. 

On the other hand, some of the disadvantages of bilingualism are an apparent delay in language acquisition; interference between the two phonological, lexical, and grammatical systems; and a possible decrease in vocabulary in both languages.

In conclusion, although there are god and bad things, I think that is better be bilingual because at present is a advantage for job, for the communication whit the other people and because it helps to facilitate the learning of other languages. 

For and against - M.A.E

Copyrighted

On the one hand, the main advantage is that paying music is the legal way to download music, otherwise you can have problems with the justice. In addition, it is the most contributor way to the economy, the music world is one of the biggest economic sectors of the world’s economy, and it is the manner to make grow this sector.

On the other hand, this way to download music is not beneficial for the unknown artists who do not have the possibility to find a potential producer to make know their music. Furthermore, the sector of the music takes the advantage of the illegality of pirated music to raise prices and create a type of mafia. 

To sump up, in my opinion, I believe that the paying music is the best way to download music because we have to respect our stablished laws, although the politicians have to control the prices as well. 

For and against essay - David Dellunde

Pirate music

In recent years, the majority of music produced is completely or partial available online, thanks to the internet, and that makes that hackers pirates many songs. The question is whether this practice is legitimate or illegitimate.

On the one hand, an advantage of pirate music is that can provide nearly all songs you can be looking for. 

Additionally, they are completely free which allows people with fewer resources to be able to enjoy the music too, as usual, it is really expensive to buy albums or songs.

On the other hand, according to some people who argue that we should put an end to the music piracy because piracy media means that generates huge losses for the record companies and music artists and as a result, this make that artist and producers have fewer resources to invest in other songs. In addition, consume free music piracy is risky for the user on account of can generate malware on the device furthermore they can collect your personal data.

However, in my opinion, I believe that is it possible to find a middle point. We could buy some CDs from the people we like the most or just use apps as Spotify, which is way cheaper and the artists obtain benefits from it.

FOR AND AGAINST ESSAY - Laura Celaya

Since the music has become one of the most powerful industries around the globe, making, in that way, record companies earn lots of money for every single or album that they release. Due to that, it has started a debate between the people that defend to buy it and the ones that defend to pirate it.

On one hand, both musicians and record companies have spent time and money in the creation, production and release of one song or a full album, so, in order to have a profitable business as well as to keep investing in other releases, they have to obtain some benefit from the music that they produce.

On the other hand, most of the people listen to music every day in various moments, however, the record companies have progressively increased the price that they charge for a song or album, causing that certain people could not afford to buy music, as a result, they decide to pirate it instead.

Personally, I believe that if the record companies want to prevent people from pirating their music, they have to reduce the prices, so as to make them affordable for everyone. To sum up, music should be in reach of all citizens since everybody has the right to enjoy the music that they love.

For and against_Javier Hidalgo

For and against_Javier Hidalgo

Today, it is said that it is better to hack music because it is too expensive. In addition, many people ask themselves: What are the pros and cons of paying for music?

On the one hand, it is important to keep in mind that the price of music is too expensive. In fact, people prefer to hack music before paying so they can listen to the song because they can't afford it.

On the other hand, it is important to consider the point of view about music producers as they live producing music and selling it. In addition, people should pay for music because musical artists and producers spend a lot of money making music and then have to recover it to continue making music.

In conclusion, I think that people would have to pay for music, but for an affordable price to avoid piracy.

FOR AND AGAINST ESSAY - Oriol García

Nowadays, speak two languages can help for many situations, and also, if you know a great variety of languages, you can get a job easier.

Because in Spain, for example, there are more than one language it is easier be bilingual. Be bilingual, helps you and make you more open-minded, it allows you talk and think in other language. For example, I can talk with some of Catalonia in Catalan, and with other from Seville in Spanish.

In other hand, I have to recognize because it even happens to me, that is so easy to mix some words of the different languages. But, I think be bilingual does not has any against, I can only see advantages.

To sum up, be bilingual opens you more door for everything, job, friendships… than be monolingual.

For and against - Ariadna Lacruz

The music is an essential for a lot of people for too many years ago and while the technology is progressing appear a lot of possibilities to download it.

Firstly, I think that download music in the pirate way in some parts is good, because the consumer can enjoy an art for free. Moreover, the music will be more universal, all the people could listen to it.

On the other hand, If the musicians show the music for free the single is not the same appreciated and the effort is not rewarded with money. Another disadvantage is that if the art starts being free there would not be a future for it.

To sum up, I think that art like music helps a lot of people around the world and pay for it will stop helping.

For and against - Ariadna Johera

Nowadays, it’s common for people to be bilingual. This have some benefits. So, what are the advantages and disadvantages of speaking two languages?

In one hand, I think that it’s very important be a bilingual person because at the time all the big company or business it will be almost mandatory to be at least bilingual.

Knowing different languages it’s easier to get a job in a higher position because you need to communicate with people from around the world.

In the other hand, studying two languages ​​does not focus only on one and at the final you don’t learn one perfectly. 

In my opinion, despite the difficulties that come learning and speaking two languages, being bilingual will make it easier to get more job opportunities.

For and against - Eric Ferrer

PAYING FOR MUSIC

Nowadays, there are a discussion about if we have to bought the music or if we have to get it pirated, which is illegal. However, paying for music is the best way?

On the one hand, the main advantage is that paying music is the legal way to download music, otherwise you can have problems with the justice. In addition, it is the most contributor way to the economy, the music world is one of the biggest economic sectors of the world’s economy, and it is the manner to make grow this sector.

On the other hand, this way to download music is not beneficial for the unknown artists who do not have the possibility to find a potential producer to make know their music. Furthermore, the sector of the music takes the advantage of the illegality of pirated music to raise prices and create a type of mafia. 

To sump up, in my opinion, I believe that the paying music is the best way to download music because we have to respect our stablished laws, although the politicians have to control the prices as well. 

Option 2: FOR and AGAINST ESSAY - GUILLEM BRUNET

Option 2: FOR and AGAINST ESSAY

When we speak more languages we receive some practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. So, could we say that bilingualism have disadvantages?

I think that bilingualism has been seen by scholars as an advantage to a developed brain. Learning and speaking a different language expose us to  improve our perception.

In my opinion one of the reasons why it is important to know more than one language is that it increases cultural awareness and allows you to communicate with different people and improve your communication skills.

On the other hand, when bilingual people speak is not unusual for them to mix the different languages together when they are having a conversation and they can even create new non-existent words.

In addition, bilinguals may use an expressions in one languages that could have a different connotation.

As far as I am concerned, bilingualism is a great advantage to learn about other cultures and for get a good job.

For and Against Essay - Núria Fdez

Nowadays, most children grow up learning two or three languages and this happens because we live in a globalized world and that means that we all have to communicate each other.

On one hand, most people think that bilingualism is essential at present and its beneficial for you when you are looking for a job. Furthermore, from the point of view of these people, bilingualism means intelligence and makes people more competitive both at school and at work.

On the other hand, there are people who think that bilingualism doesn’t mean anything because currently most children grow up learning two languages and is normal, so is not something special.

All in all, I think that bilingualism is necessary for our future and everyone should learn to speak two or three languages.

For and against Nicolas Martinez

For and against

When someone speaks two languages is obvious the benefits, you can speak practically with anyone but sometimes cause problems mainly in kids.

On one hand, bilingualism is basic for nowadays world are you able to speak with anyone when you travelling, makes you more competitive to find work

On the other hand,  is not always good try to learn two or more languages, children grow up learning more than one language and have more problems with language development: with grammar, vocabulary or pronunciation.

In conclusion, I think that bilingualisme has more benefits than disadvantages and can be very useful for today' world but you will notice that have more strees for children.

For and against essay- David Moreno

It is well known that some people pirate music because they do not want to pay the cost of some songs of their favourite artists. But how can piracy of music affect the industry nowadays that music is so important in our lives?

On the one hand, there is a lot of people behind a song that deserve to be paid for their work and the only way to earn some money is the consumer that pay. Only some people are talented enough to be called musicians and it is a lifestyle, these people could not live without an economic input. There is also illegal to pirate music.

On the other hand, there are some artists that charge a lot for only a song and they have enough consumers to low the price of their product and still maintain their economic status. There are also other ways to earn money such as the world tours some artist do that are extremely overpriced despite the people that work behind.

In my humble opinion, understanding those that do not want to pay for music, artists and workers of the music industry must be paid. There are free legal platforms that allow us to listen to music with a free option but with some advertisements, such as Spotify. There is a legal way to listen music for free but paying artists at the same time.

For and Against Oriol Gaviño

For and against Oriol Gaviño

Nowadays we are facing a globalized world, us the generation born in the globalized world, we take things as obvious and consider a normal thing the huge development that had taken place since 1950’s. Those changes connected the world and opened borders, as a result from the necessity of communicating with each other we give importance to learning different languages, but this is really necessary?

For people nowadays is compulsory to learn English at school as an extra language, the main reason is that English is the common language so to understand what is happening in other parts of the world and to communicate with different you will need English. Also learning other languages is practical and makes you a versatile and resourceful person and finally as much languages you learn more are the possibilities of getting hired and to get better jobs.

In the other hand learning another language is quite complicated specially if their origin is different from your native one so you will need to invest a lot of your time to learn this language and there are some languages that are not worth it to learn due that it has not the same utility as other languages.

Overall I think that learning a language is always useful and there is a famous quote that says `` to reach someone soul you have to speak them into their native language´´ and it is also important to learn languages to keep culture alive and to maintain the legacy of our culture and our ancestors, there is also a quote for this topic`` a language is a way to see the world, when a language disappears it also disappears a way to see the world´´ .

FOR and AGAINST ESSAY - Marc Marín Arán

Nowadays, most of the people are bilingual and have more opportunities in an increasingly globalized world. However,  there are many advantages and disadvantages of being bilingual.

On the one hand, being bilingual has many benefits and advantages. For example, if you want to travel to the USA and you speak English, you can communicate with other people and make friends without any problem. In addition, you can get a job because they look for people that speak other languages.

On the other hand, according to the newspapers Marca, children that are bilingual can have problems with language when they grow because they can mix them. In fact, most experts recommend not teaching children more than one language.

To conclude, I believe that being bilingual has more advantages than disadvantages and it can be very useful in today's world.

For and against - Adrià López

Nowadays, it is often said that it is better to pirate music because it is too expensive. Notwithstanding, some people argue that piracy should be forbidden. What are the pros and cons of paying for music?

On one hand, it is important to consider that music prize is exorbitant. In fact, people rather pirating than paying more than three euros per song because they cannot afford it. Moreover, it is said that art is worth what one is willing to pay for it, so three euros would definitely not be the prize.

On the other hand, it is important to consider record companies perspective owning to the fact they live producing music and selling it. In fact, I think people must pay for music because music artists and companies spend a huge amount of money making music.

To sum up, I strongly reckon people should pay for music, but a reasonable prize to avoid piracy and record companies abuse.

FOR and AGAINST ESSAY - David Lázaro

Nowadays, people like listening to music every day because recently there have appeared new music apps. So, music has become very important in our lives. However, some people prefer to pirate that music instead of buying it. Is that good for the artists or we should stop pirating music?

On the one hand, pirating music is a comfortable way of listening to the latest music that you want without paying and also if you illegally download the music you are making the artist famous and that is interesting for the artist. Also, there are people that they don't have enough money to buy music so they just download music illegally.

On the other hand, some people think that when you pirate music, you are stealing the artist. This is because the artists' job is to create music, and if for that music they don't get any money, they are losing money. Also, by the time of pirating the music, you are accepting the risk of getting a virus into the electronic device.

To conclude, I believe that piracy is a good way to listen to music for free and available to everyone. If people don't want to buy music they have that option. Otherwise, other people prefer to buy music and avoid the risk of viruses.

For an against essay - Sara Cambero

Speaking new languages

Every time people have a tendency to speak more than one language in this world so glovalized, therefore, does it have any benefit?


Many esperts say that speaking two languages is a great advantage today, since we can be useful when traveling, when finding work... You also have the advantage of being able to communicate with more people and have the opportunity to meet them. Nowadays being able to speak two languages is a great advantage since it offers you many options.


However, many times it can cause us to be bilingual to make us confused when we are speaking, confusing words. Furthermore when writing spelling mistakes.


Personally, I believe that being bilingual is a great luck today as it offers you many options in the workplace, in studies and to develop your mind, I think it is sometimes that should not be missed.

For and against essay - Ismael Argemí

Do you buy music or do you pirate it?

In the last few years and with the arrival of modern technology, musicians have expressed a big descent on the quantity of money they get from selling their own music. The cause is that people have stopped buying their CDs, instead, it has been mainly substituted by platforms such as Spotify or Soundcloud, but there's still a big amount of people that pirate music.

On the one hand, by paying for a music streaming platform you get many advantages like hearing music without adverts, being able to choose which song you want to hear and having almost all the music in a same place. On the other hand, paying for music platforms can be a little expensive for some people and depending on how much time do you use it, it can be worth or not.

 Moreover, the other option is to pirate music. By doing this you can get all the music for free, but you expose yourself to get a fine if you get caught. As well, pirating music does not only affect the ones who do it, it also affects musicians, that don't get money from that.

It's understandable that some people do not want or can not pay for music, but there is a legal solution for them, most music streaming platforms offer a free option in which you can listen to music with some adverts that appear every 30 minutes approximately. At the beginning, it can be a little bit annoying, but then you get used to it. 

For and against Essay- Xavier Roca

Nowadays a lot of people are used to listen to music on Spotify however not everyone uses this application and prefers to pirate it. Which is the best option for the consumers?

One point to take into account is that a wide range of applications like Spotify have abusive prizes to have all the advantages that the app offers, some of this advantages could be downloading the music or listening without the interruption of the ads. Although using the free version of this apps there's a big difference between the free version and the upgraded version.

Another point to take into account is there's a lot of website's that offers free music without paying anything and avoiding all the adverts while you are listening to music however the only disadvantage that these websites have is that you have to download it to listen to it.

All in all both options have different advantages but in my opinion, the best one is listening to music using an app that has been created to do this function although it has payments included.

For and against essay - Carlos Ballester

For and against essay-Carlos ballester

Today speak two languages is more common and lot of people speak two or more languages for different reasons, but some people think that is better speak one language.

In one hand we have the benefits to speak two languages: studies say that speak mora than one language help improve intelligence. Also, you can go another country and don’t have problem with this language. If you find a job with more languages is better.

But in the other hand the disadvantages are with one language old are easier. If we talk more languages are easier make a mistake and talk very perfecto is so difficult. Usually one language imposes     over the others.

In conclusion I think that speak more languages is very positive for our word and the globalization because we grow as people.

FOR and AGAINST ESSAY_ Carla Ortiz

Nowadays young people want to learn a new language, they want to be bilingual. According to them it has some benefits in this increasingly globalized world. Can being bilingual be able to help us in the future?

Firstly, being bilingual helps us communicate between people from different countries. Moreover, it helps you become more openminded, for example, if you learn Japanese you may learn their culture. Finally, learning a language can help you meet new people.

One the other hand, it is difficult to learn a language. It is something that you have to memorize and practice a lot. Also, there are people can get confused in words which come from two similar languages.

To sum up, although it is difficult to learn a new language, in my opinion it is necessary to be bilingual since it helps you a lot to communicate with other people, it makes you trust yourself more and you learn from different cultures.

For and against - Albert F.

Bilingualism

Speaking two languages has obvious practical benefits of an increasingly globalized world but, sometimes bilingualism can cause some trouble, especially on kids.

On one hand, those who believe that bilingualism is essential for nowadays world tend to claim this is a move on investing in their future. In fact, most of them argue that it makes you more competitive in the workplace and it can also afford you on achieving new experiences while travelling, thanks to your abilities.

On the other hand, those who think that it can be harmful say that it is not always a good thing try to learn two or more languages. Actually, children who grow up learning two or more languages face more problems with language development: with grammar, vocabulary or pronunciation.

To sum up, I think that bilingualism has more benefits than disadvantages and it can be very useful in today’s world.