Speaking multiple languages: The benefits of a bilingual brain • FRANCE 24 English

[@matthewjay660]

I'm American and I realized that I was officially bilingual when my French friends told me that I was talking in my sleep in French. I was saying, "C'est ça! C'est ça! (It's that! It's that!)" Edit: By the way, I started learning French in 7th grade, age 12, and I went on to earn my bachelor's and my master's degrees in French. I then taught high school French for 11 years and now I am in French culinary school. My point is: I wasn't six years old when I started learning French. Becoming bilingual can be mastered past age 6, 16, or 66.

[@AzainTv]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@ronberi7773]

lol

[@lionelspencer-ward3527]

In England we are classified as bilingual if we have the ability to speak to and understand Americans....

[@trilingual_brain]

Same happened to me 🤩🤣😍

[@brianl6128]

Oui, vous avez bien raison. Cependant, les enfants sont prédisposé à apprendre à parler. C’est pour ça que les adultes ont du mal à apprendre les langues étrangères, mais comme votre cas et le mien, tout le monde de quelconque âge peut apprendre une nouvelle langue malgré les défis! By the way I’m American too

[@fbkintanar]

I am from the Philippines, and I speak or read 5 languages every day. I speak English, Filipino and Cebuano with people I meet every day, and I read and study Spanish and Chinese every day. There are also a couple of languages I used to speak daily, but which have withered from disuse: Indonesian and Japanese. I can still read German, with a dictionary and a bit of a struggle, and at various times I have studied Thai and Welsh, even a bit of Swedish, Dutch, Javanese and Ilocano.

[@ronberi7773]

its bad if you are not speaking to people speaking this languages. it will wither

[@christophermockford1502]

Papua New Guinea has different languages, not just dialects. One of the most diverse linguistic places in the world, as their tribes have been separated by mountains. More different than the difference between Chinese and English. And that is within small geographic areas.

[@Leto85]

That sounds very interesting. They don't travel much which increases the chance of having so much languages in such a small area?

[@adama8570]

Polyglot people learn a language in a different way using the brain in a different way!

[@labechamel75]

For those making fun of French people only speaking French. In France we also have multiple languages: arpitan, breton, basque, corsican, catalan, flamand, occitan… and it is because French has been nurtured by all the regional languages that French is considered to be the most beautiful language in the world.

[@Comentarios488]

You need to read more. Dialects, REALLY???????

[@lionelspencer-ward3527]

French only sounds poetic because one has to resort to word gymnastics in order to describe virtually any situation. French has so few actual words and the majority have multiple meanings so phrases only make sense if the context is considered. Medical terms are often borrowed from Latin as are many legal and scientific terms. The use of feminine and masculine (le et la) unnecessarily complicates things, and French verb conjugation is a joke that very few French people really master.

[@labechamel75]

@@lionelspencer-ward3527 French compared to other languages has the particularity to be very accurate and that’s why it’s used in the international law and treaties. More than 25,000 words in English come from French (since the French Plantagenet house ran England for 300 years). French is an official languages ​​of the UN, UNESCO, International Court of Justice, Olympic Games, Council of Europe, NATO, OECD... Just for your information, for 2 centuries, French was the language of the diplomacy until the WWI when the US emerged as the big winner and americanised the diplomacy. From 1714, Latin was replaced by French especially with the Rastatt's treaty which was written in French. French therefore became compulsory in all European courts: Britain, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Russia or Austria… The existence of masculine and feminine in French exist also in German which your people came from (England = land of The Angles). It is just your country that decided to oversimplify things and it impacts the way you see your environment and construct your thought. That’s why US and UK are not the countries of the philosophy.

[@Leto85]

Lots of useful information in around 6 minutes time. Thanks for uploading.

[@KatelynRichards-p6y]

I think you can learn a language at any age with will. Also, being surrounded by mostly the language you want to learn and understand helps one learn it faster.

[@Ooljemusic]

i do speak russian, french, arabic, moroccan, english, spanish and italian and never knew i have super powers lol

[@moramejia88]

I speak Spanish , English and Português 😊

[@princessglandy6776]

So jelli omg

[@Tehui1974]

Immersion is king!

[@edgarmhtablet]

I wonder if multilingual adults learn new languages intuitively as well. I speak three languages and sometimes it’s easier for me to guess how words are used to make sentences in other languages.

[@jamesbedukodjograham5508]

We do even jumping into the Chinese Language,

[@theclassifiedvideos7168]

I speak Filipino (Philippines official first language) Visayan (local dialect in Central Philippines) Maranao (My native dialect) English (Philippines 2nd official language) Arabic (GCC Accent) Arabic (Egyptian Arabic) Arabic (Levantine Arabic) So my question is, which category of multilinguals do i belong in?

[@Kanal7Indonesia]

All non native English people are bilingual...

[@nadiabusiness23]

When is France going to apologize for their mistreatment of Muslim women?

[@lionelspencer-ward3527]

"When is France going to apologize for their mistreatment of Muslim women?" I should imagine this will straight after the Muslims apologize for their mistreatment of Muslim women! They have more to apologize for as Muslim mistreatment of Muslim women started centuries ago....

[@jamesbedukodjograham5508]

Maybe in 2023.

[@lanamack1558]

What's that got to do with the price of eggs?

[@Comentarios488]

But France must be monolingual jajajjajajaj

[@micky6312]

A bilingual person needing a translator pmsl...

[@micky6312]

I thought France wanted everyone to speak French 😆 why on earth would we all want to sound like a gay man...

[@a.demifemiflapo5795]

Who do you mean by "everyone"??