Concept in Definition ABC

The concept of bilingualism allows in our language to designate the ability of a person to use and speak two different languages ​​indistinctly, in any type of communicative situation and always with enormous efficiency.

Bilingualism can be of two types, native, or failing that acquired. With an example we will see this distinction clearly, the child who is born in Italy but has Argentine parents, will speak the language from his family, which is Spanish and of course he will speak Italian which is the language spoken in the country in which he resides. This case is framed in the type of native bilingualism.

On the other hand, when the child is born and lives the rest of his life in Mexico, he will speak clear Spanish, which is the official language. in that country, meanwhile, if from a young age, from the age of four, he begins to study English, at a certain moment and with the to run of learning he will master the language to perfection almost the same as his native language, then, in this case we are facing an acquired bilingualism.

It should be noted that what appears written in two languages ​​can also be expressed with the term at hand.

Also, when two languages ​​are used in the same region, the existence of bilingualism in that community will be discussed.. Such a situation is usually very common in regions that have been dominated by another country for a long time and that obviously influenced the adoption of the language original of it as his own.

From the above it is clear that bilingualism implies mastery, understanding that an individual has two different languages ​​and can therefore use each one satisfactorily when he needs it. Bilingualism will be manifested only when the driving of both languages ​​is perfect.
If a person speaks, for example, a language with certain fluency but not perfectly, he cannot be considered as bilingual.

For a few decades now, bilingualism has spread throughout the world and to a large extent has been the process of globalization the one who has influenced it.