The benefits of a bilingual brain - Mia Nacamulli
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It’s obvious that knowing more than one language can make certain things easier — like traveling or watching movies without subtitles. But are there other advantages to having a bilingual (or multilingual) brain? Mia Nacamulli details the three types of bilingual brains and shows how knowing more than one language keeps your brain healthy, complex and actively engaged.
Being multilingual means: More music More films More series More memes More books More everything. I wonder why some people don't even try to take up
Lesson by Mia Nacamulli, animation by TED-Ed.
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More User Perspectives
Learning a new language can be really beneficial,and it's pretty fun too!
@studyholic1457🎉wow
@user-qw9fv5rj8eEvery european speaks atleast 2 languages fluently😅😂
@isabelle_2.0.0.4My first language is Uzbek, second is Tajik, third is English
@ftbledits2024I am a multilingual.
@JibonMahbub-c3yAs an albanian guy who learned in school Macedonian, French, English, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, Arabic and later in life German my brain developed so many characters and gesticulations depending on the languange i speak its so fascinating, i cannot even explain.
Even today that im doing Neurology as specialty cannot explain the benefits and the problems i face in trying to explain myself to my patients in all these languages.😅.
But one thing is for sure, learning other languages for sure changes us, makes us more flexible and helps our brain grow.
As a south indian I can speak telugu, English & Hindi.
@kandasathish186I grew up learning russian, Bulgarian and German and at the age of 5 or 6 my brain couldn't separate the languages anymore and I started speaking all 3 languages simultaneously.
Had to visit a logopedist for a year to split them again and be able to go to primary school in Germany.
I am a native speaker in English
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@NGOCTHANHNGOTHI-u5kMy Dutch is excellent 😂
@playingindies67300:36 the text that this person has instead of skin is Russian
@onlyAyeon4uIn one moment you're bilingual and all of sudden you forgot the word you were about to say in both languages and then you're byelingual
@Camz-n5dAs a Filipino almost everyone here is Bilingual, But im Trilingual
@YTMasterbaightToday in my English lesson at university, I talked about the very topic. I said that if you learn a second language, you will create a different person from yourself. If you know two languages, you are two people. If you know three, you are three as well. You think differently when you are speaking in a foreign language compared to when you are speaking in your
@Oeweroadtood21But HOW to learn new languages?!
@CephaloSNAPthe worst part is when people ask you to translate stuff and you forget what it means and then you start panicking because you forgot
@Ailiakhaatur29i an quadralingual
@timelessgamers2382I'm from Azerbaijan and I know Azerbaijani, Turkish, English, Korean (still improving) and a little of Russian (I know the alphabet I can read and write I also know words and expressions but I'm not fluent). Anyways the hardest part is I hear those languages all the time because I don't watch contents in my first language but after watching videos on social media for hours I struggle to speak in my own language with my family. And the worst thing is my parents don't know english or korean and whenever I forget any word in Azerbaijani I can't tell them in those languages and that hurts:(
@officialheniaImagine being called handicapped because you speak more than one language!!! 😮
@chuynkl21I started to study Spanish from last year, and found it similar to English, and this really inspired me a lot, I would like to be a proficient Spanish speaker! And I tried to learn Arabic as my second language before, the vocab is the most hardest thing for me, tooooo difficult to nun-native speaker to memory the vocab! And this make the Chinese learners more incredible!!! How difficult for them to memory Hieroglyph lol
@starry6932language skills
@osshhhessAs someone currently learning a second language, this was so encouraging to watch! It’s great to know the 'workout' is worth it.
@WhattheBOOk-0210Me as a Brazilian guy watching this video in English
@lcm_yay☺️🩷😇
@juleminbiyoi know Bengali, Hindi, English, and learning German and Chinese. I am 20
@doremon-devIt's fun to listen to my friend mixing words from different languages when they can't recall a specific word in languages they communicate with. They grew up on two languages which seem similar but are different, then they had to learn two more languages in school and one more language for friends, the other two languages they understand but don't speak, were learnt through observation and instead of knowing the word directly, they can describe what word they're trying to use
@remixnightcore9861Polyglots have it easy.
@Jokerlove14As a native Chinese who now learns in Australia, earns German by self and French at school, this is awesome :D
@Klauswin_1314No entendí ni verga no se inglés
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@DuyTháiNguyễn-q8vNote: bilingualism does not make you smarter but your brain more healthy
@Viv8ldiNote: Childrens brains plasticity lets them learn languages more easily, adults mostly use left brain part
@Viv8ldiNote: Left hemisphere of brain=more analytical
@Viv8ldiNote: listening and writing=passive parts
@Viv8ldiBilingual people are common nowadays, and it's not surprising at all.
@dekuXochaXhimikoBeing bilingual it's scary sometimes, I am getting to forget words and expressions in my own mothertongue portuguese, since I also speak english, spanish and french 😢😢😢
@flaviasantos30771. the right brain is about emotion and imagination
2. it may take more energy when people transit from one language to another.
3. bilingual may not make you smarter, but it may make your brain more healthy complex and actively engaged.
According to Americans, the universal language is just English but loud and slow.
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Okay but do you mean Gabriela Montes from HSM?!😮
@lore691So, if your from anywhere that doesn't speak English and you speak your native language plus English your bilingual? Congratulations to most of the world.
@klikksCan't relate I speak four languages and am fluent in all of them without forgetting words
@Anferno218And sometimes you forget the Word/senteces in both Languages, bye-lingual 😂
Suddenly You try to explain in weird way
İm farsi and i know kurdish, english, turkish, korean, endonesian and japaness. But, I wanna learn italian and French
@İLAYDA_Dİ_LARA-l😊😊😊😊
@Marwans_ProI know Swedish, Vietnamese and english and learning korean for fun 🌸
@imarandomgirl.What about programming language?
@kimnahar