【正文】 s singing “Hit Me Baby One More Time.” And then, follow me into your your kitchen, the floor has been paved over。s about to shovel into his past past him into your living your living room, in full imaginative broadband, picture Britney is scantily clad, she39。s on the other side, and appreciate the quality of the light is shining down on Cookie Monster is waving at you from his perch on top of a tan 39。re sweaty, they39。d like you to notice the color of the door, the material that it39。ais? ni hui shuo zhong wen ma? If you answered “si”,”oui” or ”hui” and you are watching this in English, chances are you belong to the world bilingual and multilingual besides having an easier time traveling, or watching movies without subtitles, knowing two or more languages means that your brain may actually look and work differently than those of your monolingual what does it really mean to know a language?Language ability is typically measured in two active parts, speaking and writing, and two passive parts, listening and a balanced bilingual has near equal abilities across the board in two languages, most bilinguals around the world know and use their languages in vary depending on their situation and how they acquired each language, they can be classified into three general example, let’s take Gabriella, whose family immigrates to the US from Peru when she was twoyears a pound bilingual, Gabriella develops two linguistic codes simultaneously, with a single set of concepts, learning both English and Spanish as she begins to process the world around teenage brother, on the other hand, might be a coordinate bilingual, working with two sets of concepts, learning English in school, while continuing to speak Spanish at home and with , Gabriella’s parents are likely to be subordinate bilinguals who learned a secondary language by filtering it through their primary all types of bilingual people can bee fully proficient in a language regardless of accent and pronunciation, the difference may not be apparent to be a casual recent advances in imaging technology have given neurolinguists a glimpse into how specific aspects of language learning affect the bilingual ’s well known that the brain’s left hemisphere is more dominant and analytical in logical processes, while the right hemisphere is more active in emotional and social ones, though this is a matter of degree, not an absolute fact that language involves both types of functions while lateralization develops gradually with age, has lead to the critical period to this theory, children learn languages more easily because the plasticity of their developing brains let them use both hemispheres in language acquisition, while in most adults, language is lateralized to one hemisphere, usually the this is true, learning a language in childhood may give you a more holistic grasp of its social and emotional , recent research showed that people who learned a second language in adulthood exhibit less emotional bias and a more rational approach when confronting problems in the second language than their native regardless of when you acquire additional languages, being multilingual gives your brain some remarkable of these are even visible, such higher density of the gray matter that contains most of your brain’s neurons and synapses, and more activity in certain regions when engaging a second heightened workout a bilingual brain receives throughout its life can also help delay the onset of diseases, like Alzheimers and Dementia by as much as 5 idea of major cognitive benefits to bilingualism may seem intuitive now, but it would have surprised earlier the 1960s, bilingualism was considered a handicap that slowed the child’s development by forcing them to spend them too much energy distinguishing between languages, a view based largely on flawed while a more recent study did show that reaction times and errors increase for some bilingual students in crosslanguage tests, it also showed that the effort and attention needed to switch between languages triggered more activity in, and potentially strengthened, the dorsolateral prefrontal is the part of brain that plays a large role in executive function, problem solving, switching between tasks, and focusing while filtering out irrelevant , while bilingual may not necessarily make you smarter, it does make your brain more healthy, plex and actively engaged, and even if you didn’t have the good fortune of learning a second language like a child, it’s never too late to do yourself a favor and make the linguistic leap from, ”Hello,” to “Hola”, ”Bonjour” or “ninhao’s” because when it es to our brains a little exercise can go a long of memory anyone can doI39。Hablas espa241。s never said that to you, but you39。s why should we care about this? We talk about world can we have world peace with different cultures, different languages? I think it starts household by household, under the same , let39。ve had for two and a half years, and my bike is like , I39。s going to make the bike so much better.” I get the same bike back, and they39。re the what can you do with that data? You could neglect could abuse you could actually meet my I took my bike into the bike storeI love thissame bike, and they39。m telling you where I need your I39。m telling you where I39。s because I39。ll take my steak medium rare, I need size six shoes,” but I won39。t I thank it, even though they39。d really like you to thank me for all these things I did in the house and with the kids.” And he goes, “Oh, this is great, this is great.” And praise really does have to be genuine, but she takes responsibility for a friend of mine, April, who I39。t know a woman who39。t we ask for the things that we need? 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