DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BEING BILINGUAL AND BEING BICULTURAL

 A bilingual person is defined as a person that is able to use of two or more languages (or dialects) in everyday life. This definition accounts for many more speakers of languages than one based on fluency alone – especially if balanced fluency in the two languages is required – and hence is more realistic.

A clear example of a Bilingual person is someone that can speak Spanish and English with almost the same fluency, most of these bilingual kinds of people use this second language as a tool to communicate in an assertive way in a professional, academic or commercial context in order to get a good result, some of them have to learn that second language to survive which is the clear example of the immigrants, and the other kind of bilingual people are that people that have the enough economic resources to study it and the want to learn that second language for taste or as a way to pass their spare time.

    In the case of the Bilingual schools, those offer a complete training that will allow children to fluently handle another language, this is what in most cases parents do but do not understand the globalized world in which we live, it becomes a priority to understand and live other cultures far above of only speaking and writing correctly in another language, mainly English, that is why we must look for a suitable school for our children, it is important to take into account the difference between bilingual and bicultural schools.

A bilingual school is one that offers us English classes as part of the study plan, while a bicultural school offers us to take at least 80% of the subjects in the English language, learn more about their cultures and customs, this it makes students more interested in learning, and
they are guided in a good way, being interested in being able to learn something new every day.