Being Bilingual Changes Your Brain

Reina Scully helps explain what being bilingual does to your brain!

𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦!
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Animation by Charlotte Lawson

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[Poppacap]

Crazy how you can identify Reina’s voice anywhere.

[visions]

As a bilingual person, I can say it is very exhausting to track differences in language, culture, mannerism, connotation, implication. Also, it is an impossible task to not “lose” things in translation.

[santygamer]

I thought she was gonna talk about how we can now think in our second language, does anyone else do this?

[FacterinoCommenterino]

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[snailevangelist]

this is a very dubious claim on the part of the video. i am assuming that this is referring to an idea called "strong sapir-wharf hypothesis, " which is discredited and refuted by most linguists in the modern day, and makes assumptions about language perception (initially it had studied indigenous peoples like the hopi) that have loose basis in proof or reality.

it is also just very strange that this video is trying to assert such a strong claim, yet nowhere in the video or in the description is there a link to the original study they are referring to. at best, this is a misreading of the study or a miscommunication. at worst it's pop-linguistics that are feeding people objectively reductive conclusions about a complicated and nuanced topic in the field of linguistics, that linguists have been arguing about with each other for decades. really disappointed

[Dabuddah]

Isn't the easy way to test that by getting someone who speaks English raised in Japan and is Japanese and a person who speaks Japanese and is raised in America by Americans and looking at the data sets?

[sejcai]

when she pulled out the japanese びっくりすぎて頭なんかラグったww

[xiaprice]

I'm quite curious, does bilingual brain works because of cultural context and difficulty of language or it works just being bilingual? Cause in Singapore, a multi-racial country, almost everyone is at least bilingual, we speak in English, Chinese, Malay, Dialects and more by default. We even have something call Singlish where we naturally mix languages by default. Such bilingual & trilingual capability is common, expected and not of much difficulties to most as we grow up in such environment. In such cases where there's no actual difference in cultural context and significant challenges in being able to speak multiple language, does it still make our brain works differently?

[cjlite]

Which languages let me perceive time as being the fastest and slowest, I wanna blitz through school and have a weekend XD

[DimiDzi]

in Bulgarian we have several different past tenses several future tenses a few present and some that go from future to past or past future and past that go in more recent past or in the future plus we have subjunctive and we can differentiate the POV (we witness, someone else witnessed, we know because the facts point toward it)

[isramubashar]

Hello, I’m a uni-lingual-hack who knows only the language of English and a few disconnected words and phrases from other languages, how are you?

[raseli]

how to say something without saying something

[krio]

im bilingual. i speak malay and english

[jackmcquack]

im quadrilingual, no warped time perception for me :(

[yordvandamme]

No, it's definitely the languages themselves. Dutch, my native tongue for example, is much more grounded than English but it also makes intimacy sound horrible and gross

[BLAZERYT]

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