[Manish]

Language is the most fundamental aspect of education. It should be taught early on in schools or not, is a debatable topic.

A lot of opinion suggests, teaching a language in childhood in school days should be compulsory, students are more capable of absorbing a new language when they’re young. As they grow older, they become more accustom to speaking and writing in their mother tongue and thus learning a entirely new language relatively late can be daunting.

Another way to look at it is that, language learning takes time and efforts, so while young kids might have sufficient time to learn a language, they might lack the applicational use of it. Eg. A student who learns french at the university level is more likely to study or work abroad with the newly acquired language skills sooner, whereas a student has no practical implications of such nature in short term when he learns a language early.

In my opinion, languages should be taught early in the careers. Learning a language especially early, has a lot of benefits. Firstly, you have more time to work on the foundations of a language. When we’re young, we might not have a clear objective or motive for learning a language or might find it a bit challenging to set up the enviournament that allows them to learn, grow and nurture themselves in that language, but the long term results of it is rewarding. They will be much more confident and competent compared to their peers. Also their level of fluency and overall command on the language will be far better. And therefore, I suggest that the languages should be taught early.