These Are the Biggest Benefits of Learning a Second Language as a Child

Raising kids to speak more than one language can offer them several benefits. Here are a few benefits of being bilingual and ways to help your kids pick up another language—whether you're bilingual or not.

Speaking and understanding more than one language can open a world of opportunities. As a bilingual individual myself, I've experienced some of these pluses firsthand. Not only am I able to communicate with the Spanish-speaking side of my family, I've also been able to speak with locals while visiting Spanish-speaking countries, translate for others, and have been offered multiple job opportunities thanks to this in-demand skill. It's also given me a wider perspective on the world and its various cultures. 

While these are all wonderful perks, there are even more benefits to being bilingual (and, of course, multilingual) that experts are still scratching the surface on.