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WHAT IS BEING BILINGUAL?

And Its Benefits

¿Do you have a bilingual brain?

Let's start

Can you understand these lenguages?

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The Difference

The Difference between M.N and B.L

Brain

In The Grey Matter

The darker tissue of the brain and spinal cord, consisting mainly of nerve cell bodies and branching dendrites.

Grey matter is a major component of the central nervous system

Knowing two or more lenguages mean that your brain may actually look and work differently than those of your monolinguals friends..

Lenguage ability is typically measured in two passive and two actives parts

¿What does really mean to know a lenguage?

Active

-Speaking

-Writing

Passive

- Listening

- Reading

Most bilinguals around the world know and use their languages in different proportions.

Compound

Three types of bilinguals

Coordinate

Subordinate

And depending on their situation and how they acquired each language they can be classified into three general types

Her 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 friends.

For Example

Let's take Gaby whose family immigrates to the USA from Peru when she's two years old as a compound 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 her

Finally gabriella's parents are likely to be subordinate bilinguals who learn a secondary language by filtering it through their primary

The Difference in the hemispheres

The Hemispheres in the brain

While the right hemisphere is more active in emotional and social ones

Left And Rigth Hemisphere

It's well known that the brain's left hemisphere is more dominant in analytical and logical processes

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 in their native one

Acquire a Lenguage At Different Ages

Learning in Childhood and Adulthood

Children learn languages more easily because the plasticity of their developing brains lets them use both hemispheres in language acquisition while in most adults language is lateralized to one hemisphere usually the left if this is true learning a language in childhood may give you a better comprehension

- Higher density of the gray matter that contains most of your brain's neurons and synapses

When you acquire additional languages being multilingual gives your brain some remarkable advantages some of these are even visible such as:

Advantages of

Learn a Lenguage

- More activity in certain regions when engaging a second language

Bilingualism may not necessarily make you smarter it does make your brain more healthy complex and actively engaged

And make the linguistic leap from hello to hola bonjour or nihals because when it comes to our brains a little exercise can go a long way

The heightened workout a bilingual brain receives throughout its life can also help delay the onset of diseases like alzheimer's and dementia by as much as five years

Finally...

And even if you didn't have the good fortune of learning a second language as a child it's never too late to do yourself a favor

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