[:es] Think back to when you first started learning a foreign language. For many readers it was probably French, German or Spanish at school. I was one of those considered lucky enough to be “good at languages” and I studied all three. Like me though, I imagine you can remember friends who froze at the…
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The Cognitive Benefits of Being Bilingual
[:es] Today, more of the world’s population is bilingual or multilingual than monolingual. In addition to facilitating cross-cultural communication, this trend also positively affects cognitive abilities. Researchers have shown that the bilingual brain can have better attention and task-switching capacities than the monolingual brain, thanks to its developed ability to inhibit one language while using…
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How late in life can you start learning a language and still become fluent?
[:es] Want to learn a new language? The results of a recent study are encouraging. It doesn’t seem fair. You struggle for years trying to learn a new language while a child can come back from a summer in another country having completely mastered it. Children are built for language learning. But the older they…
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Quarantine, carriers and face masks: the language of the coronavirus
d3sign/Moment/Getty Images As coronavirus (officially called COVID-19) continues to dominate the news, I thought it might be useful to look at some of the language we use to talk about it. Regular readers will know my obsession with collocations (word partners), and there are lots of good ones in this topic, most of which can…