direstraits
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I feel like I forget lots of things. So it's clear the article author didn't ask me.
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Speaking 2 languages may delay getting Alzheimer's
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You changed to American English, didn't you? :whistling:
Libra
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:lol:
Amen!
Libra
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I'd like to smack whoever it was that thought giving nouns three genders was a good idea.
Hmmm, are there any languages out there that have more than three genders for nouns? Like maybe old/young masculine/feminine or soemthing.
Hmmm, are there any languages out there that have more than three genders for nouns? Like maybe old/young masculine/feminine or soemthing.
beer good
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Swedish has four. Masculine, feminine, common, and neutrum. Basically that means we have two different "it" - supposedly one for living things and one for inanimate objects, except that's gotten so messed up by now that people learning the language basically has to guess which one to use.
Four? Damn.
Any out there have five or more?
Any out there have five or more?
beer good
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Are we talking cases or genders?
Ah, well yes it is. I can get the gist of Swedish texts as it's a germanic language but Finnish makes no sense to me whatsoever. It's mad.
beer good
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Though according to a study I read a few years ago, at least Finnish kids learn to read quicker than any other Europeans, since Finnish spelling is completely phonetic - so if you somehow manage to speak it, you can always write it. French and Danish kids are the slowest, since their languages sound nothing like how they're written. (It didn't mention the poor Swiss Germans, who speak one language and write another...)
beer good
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chiangmaifalcon
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Bilingual people are lucky. They are less likely to forget things, and if they do forget something in one language, maybe they will remember in the other. Do bisexual people get alzheimers disease? I hope not. it is bad enough forgetting who you had sex with, and even worse if you can't remember if it was a man or woman.
This is true although if you're speaking Spanish and can only remember the German word for milk then it doesn't really help.
It's not just learning two languages though that will slow down Alzheimer's, it's being active, mentally, that does the trick. So whether you go and learn a second language and attain near-native proficiency or if you do a lot of Sudoku and crossword puzzles, either will get you the bonus of having a more active, and therefore more resilient, brain when it comes to diseases such as Alzheimer's.
Falcon: where'd you get that from? That bilinguals remember something in one language and forget about it in the other? I doubt that's scientifically proven by Bialystok's research.
Falcon: where'd you get that from? That bilinguals remember something in one language and forget about it in the other? I doubt that's scientifically proven by Bialystok's research.
Where do dialects figure into this?
Depends on whether the dialect is merely a different type of accent or if it's a separate language like the many you have in Spain and Sicilian versus Italian. I'm not sure, I'm not an expert on second language acquisition.