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