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Is Bilingualism Really an Advantage?
1922, in “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,” the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote, “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” The words that we have at our disposal affect what we see—and the more words there are, the better our perception. When we learn to speak a different language, we learn to see a bigger world.
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We went in search of the world’s hardest language
A certain genre of books about English extols the language’s supposed difficulty and idiosyncrasy. “Crazy English”, by an American folk-linguist, Richard Lederer, asks “how is it that your nose can run and your feet can smell?”. Bill Bryson’s “Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way” says that “English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner…Imagine being a foreigner and having to learn that in English one tells a lie but the truth.”
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Why Germans Can Say Things No One Else Can
German is a wonderfully inventive and bold language, full of gloriously long compound words for emotions and ideas that most languages struggle to allow us to express.
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Younger is not always better when it comes to learning a second language
Language immersion environment best for young children, the classroom setting is better for early teenagers, while self-guided language learning is better for adults.
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Colleen Gets Lost | one pack, one planet, no plan
Learning is not easy, especially when you have tons of books and courses to read. But can you do it when the exam is so close, and you already feel exhausted from so much studying? Fortunately, there are several simple actions that you can take to keep yourself alert and be able to study even when you feel that your brain will explode.
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How good is your Indian English?
With interesting formations of English words and a large crop of loanwords, Indian English is a fascinating English dialect. Let’s see how well you know it!
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Bilinguals experience time differently. This is why
A new study suggests that people who speak two languages fluently think about time differently depending on the language context in which they are estimating the duration of events.
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Raising a Truly Bilingual Child
Don’t assume that young children’s natural language abilities will lead to true grown-up language skills without a good deal of effort.
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Do you want fries with that? Data shows Americanization of English is rising
A new study documents the speed at which American English has stretched around the globe – and its influence is even felt within the UK
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How Exercise Could Help You Learn a New Language
Working out during a language class amplifies an adult’s ability to memorize, retain and understand new vocabulary.
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What Shakespeare's English Sounded Like - and how we know
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The Bilingual Brain Calculates Differently Depending on the Language Used
A new study reports mathematical processes in the brain are influenced by language. Studying bilingual people, researchers discovered cognitive 'extra effort' is required for solving math problems when presented in the second language.
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10 Reasons Why You Should Learn a Foreign Language
Benefits from learning another language considerably improve your well-being and they're covered in an all-inclusive infographic, so dig in!
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Babies Learn What Words Mean before They Can Use Them
Babies begin to learn words and what they mean well before they begin talking, and researchers are beginning to understand how they do it. "I think it's especially intriguing that we find evidence that for infants, even their early words aren't 'islands': even with a very small vocabulary they seem to have a sense that some words and concepts are more 'similar' than others,” Dr. Elika Bergelson from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina told Reuters Health by email.
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Study finds reading information aloud to yourself improves memory
You are more likely to remember something if you read it out loud, a study from the University of Waterloo has found. A recent Waterloo study found that speaking text aloud helps to get words into long-term memory. Dubbed the “production effect,” the study determined that it is the dual action of speaking and hearing oneself that has the most beneficial impact on memory.
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‘Happy New Year’ in European languages
Learn how to wish a "Happy New Year" in German, French, Spanish, Italian and other languages with my neatly coloured map!
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Why Menu Translations Go Terribly Wrong
Toward a grand unified theory of hilarious and odd foreign-language menus.
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Icelandic language battles threat of 'digital extinction'
Iceland’s mother tongue and cultural identity is drowning in an online ocean of English
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AI translates news just as well as a human would
Even bilingual human consultants approved.
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Thinking in a second language drains the imagination of vividness
It is fascinating to wonder how these effects might play out in the real world, particularly in international politics. By Christian Jarrett
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