Bilingual
True or false: you can learn a language at any age.
true
The brain is __________.
The most adaptable organ in the human body.
Dementia usually sets in at this age, but can occur in people who are 30 and above.
Age 65.
What does Unus mean?
Means 1 in Latin
Which organ named itself?
The brain.
Native Japanese speakers.
What does your brain do as you grow up?
Tune out other languages.
What are children capable of doing when they are infants?
They can understand different languages.
What type of language is Portuguese?
Is a Romance Language
The prefrontal cortex.
What are synapsis?
Connections in the brain.
A lesion.
Spoken language is usually developed before what?
Written language.
What means no in German?
Nein.
Luxembourgish, Yiddish or Afrikaans
Bilingual brains are much larger than monolingual brains because __________.
They gain more grey and white matter.
MRI and CT scans send these types of waves through your brain tissue.
Magnetic waves.
Alzheimer's disease.
Romance Languages are derived from what language?
Latin
French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and _______ are all Romance Languages.
Romanian
The groups were people who learned the grammar and rules of the language, and the other group were fully immersed and learned from "native" speakers
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
The brain contains this much water, and has this many neurons.
75% water, 100 billion neurons
What type of language is English?
Is a West Germanic Language.
About three lbs