In fact, the computer can translate all kinds of languages pretty well. However, it just translates a word of a language, not the language. One thing for sure that learning language helps it is easier to associate with people and also access to the culture of the world. Nevertheless, the more languages you know the further money you get and the brighter in your future. Therefore, although computers are doing very good on their jobs of translating, children need to learn a foreign language by themselves at school.
Learning another language is an intense way to apprehend people and their culture. To learn efficiently, children need to contact with the lifestyle and culture of people who speak the language as a mother tongue. By that way, learning language will improve children knowledge about information that relates with the language. For example, if children want to learn to write English well, they need to know more idioms and phrasal verbs, therefore, they need to read Shakespeare’s plays or fairy tale of England. Hence, they will know more about Britain culture and history as well.
For children, who learn more than one language, will have a lot of benefits in the future. Nowadays, in globalization, business companies prefer to recruit bilinguals than monoglots. As children learn another language from their childhood, they can speak it frequently when they are adult. It also gives children more opportunities to find an appropriate job in the future. There are a plenty of jobs for people who know more than a language. For example, a British can be a Chinese teacher if he or she knows Chinese. Moreover, bilinguals can also be a translator as well as a businessman with decent salary. Also, many polyglots can join diplomatic profession, which requires the recruit to know more than a language, usually offers the highest-paid.
Learning is good, especially learning another language. It gives your children more occasions to find a suitable job. Besides language, children also learn more about culture, religious and people around the world. How favourable learning language is. Ergo, children should learn more than a language.