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Nicosia Gooner
09-13-2013, 07:44 PM
Bull**** doesn't count :hehe:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2418614/Why-s peaking-second-language-make-brainier-Bilinguals-better-memo ries-problem-solving-abilities.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2418614/Why-speaking-second-language-make-brainier-Bilinguals-better-memories-problem-solving-abilities.html)
slow&low
09-13-2013, 08:01 PM
Dutch, Frisian and a tad English.
Supermac1976
09-13-2013, 08:09 PM
Nicosia Gooner
09-13-2013, 08:10 PM
(who is of course Dutch ) speaks 5 languages including Greek.
When he first said to me he spoke Greek I thought "Oh yes, a few dirty words and that's about it". I was amazed when I saw him reading a Greek newspaper, and yes, his knowledge of anything Greek is better than mine :furious: :hehe:
Nicosia Gooner
09-13-2013, 08:12 PM
Nicosia Gooner
09-13-2013, 08:15 PM
Bergkamp's Brain
09-13-2013, 08:17 PM
I speak 2 languages and I have a shocking memory
One Wilf Copping
09-13-2013, 08:25 PM
Nicosia Gooner
09-13-2013, 08:28 PM
****, I forgot your memory is shocking
:-)
71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat
09-13-2013, 08:35 PM
One Wilf Copping
09-13-2013, 08:42 PM
I was actually reading a similar thing earlier on twitter:
https://twitter.com/trilingualchild/status/37840399570412339 2 (https://twitter.com/trilingualchild/status/378403995704123392)
Weird to think people used to worry that bilingualism was actually bad for people's health and the cause of confusion. :shrug:
Bergkamp's Brain
09-13-2013, 08:44 PM
Nicosia Gooner
09-13-2013, 08:44 PM
as it would confuse them, how stupid is that?
My children are now tri-lingual, English, Spanish and Greek
Nicosia Gooner
09-13-2013, 08:47 PM
however, I found the best way to get round it is to try and relax as the harder you try the worse it gets; the moment you relax then it all comes back.
One Wilf Copping
09-13-2013, 08:47 PM
Raising our kids with English, German and Spanish... Hopefully it'll work out ok...
:rubchin:
Nicosia Gooner
09-13-2013, 08:51 PM
linguist and she has also studied German, French, Japanese, Arabic (because of it influence to the Spanish language) and Portuguese
One Wilf Copping
09-13-2013, 08:55 PM
someone learns two or three languages it triggers a switch in the brain almost and make it easier to go on and learn five or six languages.
Nicosia Gooner
09-13-2013, 09:14 PM
Supermac1976
09-13-2013, 09:20 PM
:hehe:
slow&low
09-13-2013, 09:30 PM
However, Frisian is indeed a seperate language. Much different from Dutch, actually a bit familiar to both English and German, how stupid that may seem.
devongunner
09-13-2013, 09:32 PM
Sultan of Oman's Armed Forces were Arabic only until getting together with other Brits for social time
bostonbrian
09-13-2013, 09:36 PM
A joke....I'll moove on
Mc Gooner
09-14-2013, 07:37 AM
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