Being Bilingual In Canada

Bilingual If English were accepted as a second language, a lot of Japanese people would speak English. In other words, they become bilinguals. Is it difficult to be bilingual for Japanese? What is a bilingual? The definition is very vague. It does not know how much you need to speak English to consider as a bilingual. Even if people can talk with native speaker in English fluently, there are some people who can’t speak about specific topic. For example, it is politics or economic. How do the people who are called bilinguals use their brains? John Edwards have explained, it is said that they have two brains for each languages. In other words, bilinguals do not translate a second language in mother language in the brain. They deal with the language

The native language is French. In other words, there are a lot of French people who can speak English. Why is French spoken in Quebec where is in English country? In the past, Quebec was controlled by France from 1534. That is why, Quebec is spoken French in Canada where is speaking English. Quebec is also said multicultural and multiethnic country. Quebec is treated as kind of one country in Canada. Even English is a second language, all the people cannot speak English. In fact, people who speak only French are more than bilingual. In the restaurant, the menu was in French. The most drivers or shopkeepers cannot speak English. It would be hard to go shopping. The difference between people who can speak English and who cannot is whether they went to English school or not. In contrast with Japan, even the advertisement is also only in French. It can also say that Japanese environment is closer to bilingual country than Quebec because there are English or Chinese are spelled more than Quebec. This is the place which accepted English as a second language. Even it accept English as a second language, all the things do not need to be changed. What is right image of English as a second language? What is the ideal situation that two languages exist

Are there some similarity between French and English? One of the reasons why Japanese is hard to speak English is said that the language structure is completely different between Japanese and English. Japanese structure is basically subject, object and verb. English order is subject, verb and object. On the contrary, French order is almost same as English. In addition, it is said that some English words come from French. There are a lot of similar English words in French. That`s why, it can say that English is easier to learn than for French people than Japanese people. It is also said that Quebec accepted English easily as a second language. However, all the people are not speaking English in Quebec. There must be other problems. It might be same as Japan. As I said, one of the reason why some Japanese people do not want to learn English is that we don`t need English even we live in Japan. If you speak only French, you can live in Quebec. That`s why, all the people are not speaking English in