Hello Jane, There is no relation between speaking a second language and being a good citizen. You might need to speak a second language for carrier ,communication in your country but nothing to do with your goodness .

From my point of view to be a good citizen it has nothing with second language . To be a good citizen u need only to be loyal to ur country and follow its law ,respect its traditions and so on . But to know or learn second language in my opinion is to just be more knowledgable , more educated ,more aware by what is happening around u in the world and it is important for ur career to be up to date and developed .

I have to agree with the other answers that being a good citizen has nothing to do with knowing a second language.

Hello Jane To speak another language give you more opportunities in your life... It is also necessary if you want to travel or to find a better life or a better carreer but nothing to do with good citizenship.

I think there's so need to learn another language just to be a good citizen unless you live in a country with several state languages. I assume good citizens are those who care about their motherland, follow its laws and so on. Of course, if you're a citizen of multilanguage country it's better for you to know at least state languages, because if you come to the parts of a country with language different from yours you could not be able to understand your fellow citizens. The examples are Swiss and Canada. Anyway whether to learn new languages or not is always your decision. And you could be a good citizen even if you know only one language, just look around, I'm sure you'll see a lot of such people! (Damn, too much letters... :))