SCIENTISTS AND COMEDIANS SAY BILINGUALS ARE BRANIER AND FUNNIER
March 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL AND KITTY SO, IN OTTAWA; AND CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS
KNOWING how to speak two languages in a country where there are two official languages is always going to be a good bet. But as well as the delights of knowing you peanuts from your arachides and your gelée from your jelly, there are whole host of additional cognitive advantages to mastering two tongues rather than one.
Researchers on the effect of bilingualism suggest a person's brain can benefit from using multiple languages. Loraine K Obler, a linguistic professor at the City University ...
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