Monday, 29 October 2018

The benefits of a bilingual brain



One of our classmates shared this fascinating video trough our facebook group that shows the benefits involved in the learning of other languages. 

The principal profit that almost everyone knows, or at least has heard about, it's the cultural  and social enrichment. Knowing other languages provides us a wider and richer vision of the multicultural world we live in through the awareness of the different ways of understanding and appreciating our reality. 

However, bilingualism is quite beneficial for our brain health too as it decrease the risk of contract degenerative diseases like dementia. A bilingual brain will have higher density due to an increase of grey matter as it will augment synapse activity in certain regions. 

In regards to what we have been discussing here, we have also found a blog under the name of "Bilinguex" that provides several resources for language learning. You can check it right here:


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