Receptive Bilingualism: How Understanding a Language Can Enhance Your Cultural Literacy

Receptive Bilingualism: How Understanding a Language Can Enhance Your Cultural Literacy

Bilingualism and multilingualism are becoming more common as globalization increases. Some may be more fluent in one language than the other, while others may understand both languages. The latter is receptive bilingualism. Receptive bilingualism is the ability to understand a language but not speak it fluently. For example, someone who grew up hearing their parents…