The benefits of a bilingual brain - Mia Nacamulli
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-speaking-multiple-languages-benefits-the-brain-mia-nacamulli It's obvious that knowing more than one language can make certain things easier...
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¿Hablas español? Parlez-vous français? 你会说中文吗？If you answered, "sí," "oui," or "会" and you're watching this in English,chances are you belong to the world's bilingual and multilingual majority.And besides having an easier time travelingor watching movies without subtitles,knowing two or more languages means that your brainmay actually look and work differently than those of your monolingual friends.So 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 reading.While a balanced bilingual has near equalabilities across the board in two languages,most bilinguals around the...
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¿Hablas español? Parlez-vous français? 你会说中文吗？If you answered, "sí," "oui," or "会" and you're watching this in English,chances are you belong to the world's bilingual and multilingual majority.And besides having an easier time travelingor watching movies without subtitles,knowing two or more languages means that your brainmay actually look and work differently than those of your monolingual friends.So 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 reading.While a balanced bilingual has near equalabilities across the board in two languages,most bilinguals around the...
