Option 1 Speaking two languages has obvious practical benefits but it also have some disadvantages. W hat are the main advantages and disadvantages of being bilingual? On the one hand, being bilingual improves the communication skills. Bilingual people have it easier to talk with some foreign people and to communicate with people all over the world. For that reason, bilingual people normally have better job opportunities due to they language knowledge. Moreover, bilinguals are predisposed to have better cognitive skills. On the other hand, bilingualism may present present some disadvantages. One, for example, is mixing languages. This one is specially common in languages that are similar like Spanish and Catalan. That is quite common owing to the coexistence of both languages and the similarity. Furthermore, bilingualism affects the speech fluency because of the knowledge of two languages. But this disadvantage is related with mixing languages and mostly affects ...