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An advantage of learning a language – as opposed to acquiring a language My parents spoke Polish and Ukrainian. However, they did not teach these languages to me when I grew up. In the 1960s it was not in vogue to be anything than a WASP. I and my parents have often regretted the fact [...]

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When not to start to teach Children languages The truth is all times and ages are good to start a child with a language. However, the question is do you want them to speak like a native or like a foreigner. I live in Krakow, and many parents say they will start their children young [...]

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Gesture reflects or body language language development: Evidence from bilingual children Using hand gestures to help you in expressing yourself was seen as a sign of weak verbal or language development.  A substitution for verbal fluency.  However, the work on Elena Nicoladis Department of Psychology University of Alberta indicates the contrary. Children who used more hand gestures [...]

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15% more earnings for bilingual skills I have been looking around at how much people get paid for being bilingual. If you are talking apples and apples, bilingualism will reward you with about a 15% increase per year in your pay. However, this is for basic job. The reward for a professionals, will be a [...]

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These are actually the top post in which people entered my blog. Its intersting that 3 of the 5 are connected with love and only 2 are directly connected with languages and language learning. Bilingual brains protected Being bilingual offers benefits Hardest language to learn Which language is the hardest language Free Russian dating Site that offer free [...]

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Bilingual babies learn in a different way What is the difference in learning method? Bilingual babies focus on learning as many words as possible, monolingual babies focus on the small details of the words they learn. Bilingual babies develop a strategy that they will focus their cognitive energies on associating words with with concrete objects. [...]

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Bilingual education in America The USA has given more funding and starting new programs in bilingual education in the public schools.  The objective is to make the USA more competitive in the global market.  These programs are just not traditional languages classes in a foreign language, but these are true bilingual education programs in public [...]

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Bilingual brains If you are bilingual, even better if you are bilingual from childhood, more and more research is supporting the theory that your bilingual abilities will delay or even prevent dementia.  The idea is that when you speak more than one language you need to have the ability to differentiate between two distinct sets of [...]

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