Students all over the world suffer from language barriers, which are unbreakable walls that are put up by accented words that are lost in the atmosphere. It is almost impossible to overcome these walls, unless the student listens carefully, or already knows how to read and write the said languages being taught. These can also be useful to have together, it is just that one does not need to do both to be able to break the barriers. . These barriers walk all over the students’ capability to learn properly.

To start off, in order to effectively listen and digest the information, one cannot be afraid to ask questions. Listening will not do the student any good if the information just goes into one ear and out of the other. If the student finds it impossible to pay attention or understand the teacher even after trying for a while, then he or she should ask the teacher to repeat the sentence or ask someone else what the teacher had said. Also,  if the student asks the teacher directly to slow down, they will see this as rude, which is completely understandable and it might irritate the others as the teacher will have to stop the lesson to make it so one student understand, instead of just repeating what they said. Listening also benefits from training one’s ears to pick up the dialect and being able to piece the broken English into better English. Eventually, the student will be able to comprehend everything that teacher is saying and soon they will no longer need anyone to help them, except when it comes to pronouncing the words themselves when doing a presentation (Wikipedia).

Now, reading and writing another language has its perks as well as listening. It can help with the struggles of penmanship and pronunciation, and once a person is able to pronounce them on their own, hearing other people say the same words out loud will not be as painful to the brain as it was before. Reading is an awesome way to raise vocabulary levels and is one of the best ways to do so, besides actually speaking the said language. Before one starts reading a language, they must learn the alphabet in order to know how to correctly pronounce the words and not mess up as much as a person who does not now the foreign letters of the alphabet, especially with ones that have other letters besides the American twenty-six standard.

Being in America, knowing more than one language is crucial, because since this country is a growing melting pot, the languages are getting more and more mixed together to the point where English is competing with Spanish for the most spoken in the country. Language barriers need to be conquered by trying one’s best to be able to interpret and break down what the teacher is saying to a point to where a new student can handle such a change. These barriers are faced in everyday life and in school it is harder for kids to learn with them because they are not taught ways to handle them (Wikipedia).