Being bilingual

Being bilingual or more, Speaking more than one language from language learner to polygot.

Russian in Russia Do you want to go to Russia? Learn Russian Years ago people use to dream of living in France. My sister spent a year in Paris working for a French bank. But for the pay you get you can live in a small room in Paris with strange plumbing as many of [...]

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Babies start learning languages at 3 days As soon as children are born babies start to differentiate sounds.  And Babies can do it well.  For a baby language learning is all about organizing different sounds into meaningful patterns. Even under the age of one a baby understand grammar.  Its brain has put it into a [...]

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How to learn vocabulary With right lessons, non-native kindergarteners learn vocabulary faster than native English-speakers fromThe University of Chicago Press-An important study from The Elementary School Journal explores vocabulary development at the kindergarten level among English-only students (EOs) and English-language-learning students (ELLs) who speak another language at home. Analyzing rates of target word acquisition and [...]

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Less gym more learning Learning languages ‘boosts brain’ from the BBC Learning languages enhances the brain, scientists believe learning a second language “boosts” brain-power, scientists believe. Researchers from University College London studied the brains of 105 people – 80 of whom were bilingual. They found learning other languages altered grey matter – the area of [...]

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  new language and your native language Science of language-Bilingual brain by Nigel Praitis sciencefirst-Too many words? The brains of bilingual children are able to distinguish between the two languages. Yet the brain is remarkable in being able to distinguish between two languages. Bilingual children may take slightly longer to utter their first word but [...]

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Babies and languages   For baby, the more languages, the better Landmark research reveals multilingual upbringings benefit babies by Robert Bazell NBC’s Nightly news-Babies’ brains develop differently in bilingual environments. Recent studies show that babies who learn two or more languages at once actually perform better at certain tasks — mental dexterity brought on by [...]

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