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July 02nd, 2016

2/7/2016

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How the languages you speak change your world view

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Having grown up trilingual I have always found it difficult to explain to monolinguals  just how grateful I feel for being able to look at the world through different eyes depending on the language I am speaking at the time. Even when I write I feel the difference.



​I came across the article below published online in www.theconversation.com and found it really resonated, I think a lot of you will feel the same.
The icing on the cake besides all the other "perks" is that dementia, is likely to kick in 5 years later.
​Then again, when it does, the gibberish I will be fabricating is likely to be triple Dutch ;))

Thank you Panos Athanasopoulos (Professor of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University) for this excellent article. 
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"Bilinguals get all the perks. Better job prospects, a cognitive boost and even protection against dementia. Now new research shows that they can also view the world in different ways depending on the specific language they are operating in." Read the complete article here...

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