Nine Unique Traits That Bilinguals Possess

More than half of the world's population is bilingual. According to various estimates, from 60 to 75% of people speak at least two languages. An additional language is not just a means of communication. Research shows that such people receive a range of social, psychological, life and cognitive...

Bilingualism can save you from Alzheimer's: how knowledge of two languages ​​affects the brain

Knowing two or more languages ​​enriches us, allowing us to experience another culture, share our thoughts, and gain a deeper understanding of the world. But that's not all the benefits of bilingualism. As scientists from two Spanish research centers - the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) and the University of...

How a bilingual child decides which language to speak

Every year millions of people learn their native language, but how this happens is still a mystery. The peculiarity of bilingualism is that most of the sentences that the child uses are not a mixture of the two languages. Basically, they get used to the fact that ...

We are losing it: why do children of immigrants need Russian?

Let me make a reservation right away - the phrase “Russian language” is very arbitrary. In its place could be: Ukrainian, Armenian, Georgian, and so on. We are talking, parents, about your native language, which remained native to you during immigration, but became a second language for your children.…

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