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Multilingual People Have Healthier, More Engaged Brains? (2016)

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Re: Multilingual People Have Healthier, More Engaged Brains? (2016)

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Easy - study children in Eastern Europe/Baltic states. Lots of people grow up bilingual, with English as a third language, too.

Lots of those people become tetralingual because they have time left over the three languages that are taught anyways. E.g. Russian and Estonian as native language, English plus a fourth language from school. Those who do not have a bilingual family only learn three during the same time. E.g. Estonian, English and Russian. I kind-of envy the first group of people because it's cool to be able to access so many spheres…

Russian forums have all sorts of nice software/hacks for smartphones, tablets, laptops, etc. Only place I could find a programmer (and a ton of firmware) for washing machine and dryer boards.

Chinese forums/websites seem to be even better, but harder to get into (translation issues, have to sign up/log in to a lot of them).

Re: Multilingual People Have Healthier, More Engaged Brains? (2016)

#112

Check back in 10 years after the replication crisis has burned through this field.

If a psychology study concluded that the sun will rise tomorrow, would you dispute it based on the replication crisis?

This kind of knee jerk dismissal is becoming tiresome on this site.

Re: Multilingual People Have Healthier, More Engaged Brains? (2016)

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A lot depends if it's the same culture ( eg. Roman)

I speak French, Dutch and English.

I understand German and can do simple things with it.

I can understand Spanish a little bit.

But I don't think my brain is different. The mapping is very similar between those languages.

An Asian/Russian language would be very hard for me to.

Re: Multilingual People Have Healthier, More Engaged Brains? (2016)

#114

Check back in 10 years after the replication crisis has burned through this field.

If a psychology study concluded that the sun will rise tomorrow, would you dispute it based on the replication crisis? This kind of knee jerk dismissal is becoming tiresome on this site.

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Re: Multilingual People Have Healthier, More Engaged Brains? (2016)

#115

Check back in 10 years after the replication crisis has burned through this field.

If a psychology study concluded that the sun will rise tomorrow, would you dispute it based on the replication crisis? This kind of knee jerk dismissal is becoming tiresome on this site.

I’d revert to my prior, just like here.

Re: Multilingual People Have Healthier, More Engaged Brains? (2016)

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post #41

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What language?

Hebrew.

It's a mindfuck only when the alphabet is all goofy compared to your native language imo.

Learned Spanish and was relatively easy...now learning Russian and yes...mindfuck!

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