IELTS Writing task 2: learning a foreign language in primary school or secondary school? Some experts believe that it is better for children to begin learning a foreign language at primary school rather than secondary school. Do the advantages of this outweigh disadvantages? Do a foreign language should be learned at primary school or secondary school? Some people think the advantages of learning at primary school outweigh the disadvantages of this but the others do not think so. I agree that children should learn the foreign language when they are in primary school. As the reasons that are mentioned. Firstly, learning a second language deeply take a lot of time and the memory skill is growing fast when the learner is at that age in primary school. So many words of this foreign language can be remember easily and deeply, just as we can easily remind the funny memories of childhood. Secondly, when the child is in the primary school, usually there are less subject should be taught, less knowledge should be remembered. Thus, the information about this foreign language do not need to be pushed aside in children’ brain. However, there are also some disadvantages that people usually think about, would the foreign language become a kind of children’ mother tongue rather than their dialect? For instance, children who go abroad when they are very young, most of them can not speak too much about their mother language but the language they heard and speak in that country. Thus, what would happen if children studying in international school or bilingual school, the true is, children at these schools can not get into their dialect as much as that of in ordinary school. In conclusion, this is a choice question that learning the foreign language deeper than mother tongue or the opposite, in my truly heart, i believe that advantages of the former outweigh the disadvantages of this.