Spanish examination to one hundred one-and bilingual persons.
- Appropriate brain areas are exercised better.
Barcelona - Bilingual people can concentrate better
than such who master only a language. This has yielded a Spanish examination of
Barcelona university in which had participated per 100 one and bilingual
young people.
Who has grown up bilingually can more simply
concentrate therefore for example in the noise of an open-plan office on
the essential or take a decision more quickly than a driver at confusing sign. "Bilingual permanently must take care that they don't mix
up her two languages", explained the neurologist Albert Costa of
the newspaper of "El Pais".)
Better trained brain
The areas important to the attention of the brain
are exercised therefore better. Bilingual fell ill with Alzheimer or
other degenerative brain sufferings in the average later in old age.
They also would have disadvantages, though. You
would speak a little more slowly than people who mastered only a
language. The difference agrees on only split seconds, though. Bilingual
would moreover more frequently have difficulties to find the correct
word. (APA/dpa)
Source:
Der Standard - 2007-03-26 - 12:32 (this link is liable to pay
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is the link to the original text at El Pais (this link is
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