The benefits of a bilingual brain - Mia Nacamulli

It’s obvious that knowing more than one language can make certain things easier — like traveling or watching movies without subtitles. But are there other advantages to having a bilingual (or multilingual) brain? Mia Nacamulli details the three types of bilingual brains and shows how knowing more than one language keeps your brain healthy, complex and actively engaged.

Lesson by Mia Nacamulli, animation by TED-Ed.

[Segio.Ramirez]

Things that bilinguals do:
Forget the word they trying to say in one language so they say it in another expecting that the other person understand.

[shadesofblue]

The worst thing is sometimes, people think that you’re showing off but actually you just forget the word in the language your speaking

[Аришкинс]

as a person, who knows 3 languages (and English isn't my first language) I can say that when I started to learn languages as a hobbie it changed my life a lot
now, when I angry or sad I just start to think in English or French. it really helps to relax and think more clearly

[culturapopeespiritualidade]

As an English Teacher, I can honestly say that learning a second language can help the learner in so many ways. Many students have reported to me that improving their second language has also improved his native one.

[emily-eiyd]

the worst part is when people ask you to translate stuff and you forget what it means and then you start panicking because you forgot :/

[wheresrome]

Cons of being bilingual :
You forget how to say a word in one language but not the other.
You mix up words and create a new language

[kanoko_]

My first language is Japanese and I started learning English when I was 15.
Even though it's been more than 3 years, I have no idea how bilingual people could speak as fast and as smooth as native English speakers.

[MonaHermosura]

My parents are both from Mexico and only speak Spanish, growing up the main language I knew was Spanish until I started school, I’m so lucky my school had bilingual classes and I was in them until 3rd grade. Which helped with not forgetting my Spanish, but at the same time I have no choice because I still have to speak Spanish to my parents since they can’t understand English.
One thing I struggle with is not knowing how to translate very professional complicated English forms and Spanish forms. ☹️ which sucks because I can’t help my parents with translating letter in the mail for them 😭

A funny thing for me in knowing two languages is how some things I can only understand in Spanish and other things I can only understand in English 🤣

[bart]

Lets be honest. One of the greatest advantages of being bilingual is getting YT videos praising you😂

[kysuneh]

Bilingual/Multilingual Problem:
When someone asks you to translate something, you might suddenly forget how to accurately word it in the other language of your choice. You can comprehend the sentence, but the translation is at the tip of your tongue. It's like, "I understand what that sentence means, but I just can't remember the phrase for it in <*insert language*>."
Dunno if that made sense, but it happens to me a lot lol.

[rustinwilde]

I live in Azerbaijan. Here it's a common thing to know 4 languages. Most people (usually the young generation) know Azerbaijani as their native language, Turkish because it has some similarity with our language, Russian, because the country was a part of the USSR, and English as must known language (because of its internationality). Being bilingual is great and helps to absorb Information from different sources.

[raulvaldesriveras]

Very interesting!
My native language is Spanish, and I think I'm not bilingual yet but I'm learning every day. It's cool to know that learning a new language has social benefits but also physical or specifically brains benefits.
I would like to have a childhood like Gabriela and to have a compund bilingual, but I am like Gabriela's parents and I am doing subordinate bilingual, for me it is a challenge and I am learning much more and beter than when I was younger.
It is crazy that there is technology that shows the physical differences of a bilingual brain with other that is not, and it is crazier than before some scientists said learn two lenguages at the same time is bad for the kids

[tonatalaki]

Being multilingual means:
More music
More films
More series
More memes
More books
More everything.
I wonder why some people don't even try to take up a language.

[SuperSas]

YOU watched this video while English isn't your first language... good job.

[bookwormd]

I lived in Singapore so I had a massive advantage. Local schools offer 4 different language classes: Mandarin, Malay, Tamil and Hindi while classes are in English. If you don’t pick any of those, you have to take an additional language outside of school. Singapore is also very multicultural and most people speak 3 language normally so you get a lot of practice outside of school too. I now live in japan and speak Japanese with my mom, take Chinese at school while other classes are in English, and learn Korean via zoom.

[chuteorphee]

Honestly learning a second language is like traveling to another world. Love it ❤

[isabelaareas]

The point is: you feel satisfied of understanding another language without translation

[kaidayui]

My favorite: "Look, I know what it means, but I can't tell u in words"
I just kinda feel the meaning🤣

[jyim]

My two children can speak Japanese and English quite fluently and they are Korean. . While I paid much attention to their acquiring English, I had no idea that they could speak Japanese quite well until recently. They said they come to acquire Japanese through early exposure to the language from the media. In fact, I am a big fan of Detective Conan and have watched the anime since I was single. . Didn't expect this to happen.. I was busy reading subtitles while they were acquiring the language.

[curltway]

I'd say I understand 7 languages. I actively speak Indonesian (native language), English, and Spanish on a daily basis, followed by 4 languages that I can understand but passively use it: Sundanese, Javanese, Japanese (I can read and write), and Catalan. By learning Spanish, it opens more opportunities for me to learn and understand a bit of Italian, Portuguese, and French (I'm currently learning Italian). Using and thinking in those languages is such a great exercise for my brain, and it does help to improve my memory. I'm so glad that I have the ability to learn various languages. Hopefully, I still can understand and speak all of them when I'm older.