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advantages: open-mindedness, greater understanding, connections that non-bilinguals miss.
better communication with different kinds of people.
There are situational advantages: social mobility, job Bilingualism at Keystone
possibilities, reading literature in the original language. Bilingualism is a different experience. We at Keystone
think that the benefits of knowing two systems, two
There are learning advantages too. Brain researchers cultures, two languages outweigh the initial jump that
have recently found that the brain of a bilingual might happen at another school when focusing on just
person can actually reorganize specific brain networks one.
to create a more efficient basis for what is called
executive control. Bilingual people have mental Let’s return to the earlier discussion of the nature of a
flexibility. This means that they can more e