Do you know what happens when you speak a second language?

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2 min readJan 3, 2021

By: Professor Julieth Pena

For Academic tutors USA

Date: January 22, 2020

Do you know what happens when you speak a second language?

Everyone knows about the multiple benefits of speaking a second language from as professional chances, get better a job with a good paid, read a book in their original language and watch a movie with the real voices, etc … its a fact that speaking a second language its really fundamental and attractive but let’s talk about deeply that probably you don’t know, speaking a second language gives you more than you would imagine.

Benefits:

1.To communicate so much better with other people

2.Be good at Multitasking

3.less risk of having future neurodegenerative diseases

4.Improve the cognitive process

Now you know the benefits lets talk about how it does affect your brain, significant physically changes, when you speak a second language the plots in your brain that related to the language look different and switch the size and the way connects with others, because when you repeat you are using al the tools that your brain already know to interpret everything around.

Benefits for being Bilingual:

A better cognitive process of the perception, the memory the attention and the emotions,

Functional benefits; Increased capacity of operating memory of working: it the ability to keep more elements for a short time a bilingual person show a better capacity with this memory because it is more exposed to more conversational environments more strict.

Process the perception: the greater capacity to understand others’ perspectives means a better situational capacity to watch the reality from the others and identify the dominant language from others

Mayor cognitive reserve: The person gets old in better conditions with the deterioration, the bilingual people confront better the condition the neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer or Parkinson does mean less impact on the persons life.

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