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Born Again in a Second Language

August 7, 2013March 22, 2018
by cat

Wow I sooooo get this! For me it wasn’t in writing, but in speaking….when I first started speaking German I felt like my personality had been completely removed and replaced by a tattered grammar book. Slowly I’ve managed to rebuild it again, but I have to say, it’s still not the same complete “me” that I am in English.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/born-again-in-a-second-language/

Crossing Cultures

The Bi-Lingual Brain Advantage

January 22, 2010
by cat

Maybe I’m just glad to justify all my efforts to learn another language. Or maybe I’m glad to have scientific backing for my own observations I’ve written about in the Adventures in German series. Either way, this article totally confirms my own experience.

The findings suggest that after learning a second language, people never look at words the same way again.

“The Neural Advantage of Speaking 2 Languages” (Scientific American)

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Born Again in a Second Language

The Bi-Lingual Brain Advantage