TED Summary : The benefits of Bilingual Brain
Knowing and learning other language beside your mother language brings several benefits for our brain. The speaker said that the brain works differently when we speak or learn bilingual (multilingual). Children easily learn other language because they use both of their brain hemisphere while adult only use the left one. Having more than one language also brings some remarkable advantages for both children and adult. The children or adult learning more than one language will have less emotional problems and help them to prevent the brain diseases such as dementia. Although it is not make us smarter, our brain will be more healthy, complex and actively engaged.
Knowing and learning other language beside your mother language brings several benefits for our brain. The speaker said that the brain works differently when we speak or learn bilingual (multilingual). Children easily learn other language because they use both of their brain hemisphere while adult only use the left one. Having more than one language also brings some remarkable advantages for both children and adult. The children or adult learning more than one language will have less emotional problems and help them to prevent the brain diseases such as dementia. Although it is not make us smarter, our brain will be more healthy, complex and actively engaged.
