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The benefits of a bilingual brain - Coggle Diagram
The benefits of a bilingual brain
Learning another language means you belong to the world's bilingual and multilingual majority.
types of bilingualism
Coordinate bilingual
Works with to sets of concepts. Speaks their second language at school or work and speaks their native language at home with family
Subordinate bilinguals
Learns a second language by filtering it through their primary language
Compound bilingual
Develops two linguistic codes simultaneously with a single set of concepts as they begin to process the world around them
A language ability is typically measured in two active parts, Speaking and writing, and two passive parts, listening and reading.
The major cognitive benefits to bilingualism may seem ingrown know. Bilinguanism was cosidered a handicap that slowed a child's development by forcing them to spend lots of energy distinguishing between languages a view based on flawed studies.
Recent advances in brain imaging technology show how specific aspects of language learning affect the bilingual brain
Critical period hypothesis
Learning a language in childhood may give you a more hostilic grasp of its social and emotional contexts
Being multilingual gives you a lot of advantages
Higher density of the grey matter
More activity in certain regions when engaging a second language
Can also help delay the onset of diseases onto five years
Alzheimer´s
Dementia
Knowing two or more languages
means your brains is "multilingual"
and works different than people
that only speak one language.