The benefits of a bilingual brain - Mia Nacamulli

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

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 :/

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

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.

Came here being very proudof knowing two languages .. reads comments Welp looks like everyone speaks 8+ languages here *self esteem -100

When you are learning a language and someone asks you to say something in that language, but you forgot EVERY word of the language so you’re like .__.

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.

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.

the benefit of a bilingual brain is to understand different memes in different languages

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.

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 🤣

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.

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

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.

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

I'm multilingual 😁 I was born in a family which speaks English, Portuguese and Italian. And during my life I've learnt 6 languages more. I love to meet new people from different cultures and learn their languages My son is 5 years old and I constantly put him to face listening to Portuguese, English and Italian as well. I think it'll be good to him!

Sometimes l suddenly forgot a word in my native language but l know it in English or another language lol

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.

I think the emotional connection you have with your native language and other you learned later as an L2 that was mentioned in the video is indeed real. I can easily say "I love you" but I can barely say "eu amo-te". English feels more emotionally detached whilst portuguese comes off as very personal and strong