Being bilingual or multilingual is fabulous!👌

I speak 3 Languages and leaning my 4 one now , so great news hahah learn super quick I find languages easy

I am a filipino and i also speak english which is usual here in Philippines and since my chinese boyfriend speaks mandarin and english, I also got to learn it. I can easily switch from Tagalog to English to mandarin in a snap unconsciously, like if i speak to chinese my mind thinks in chinese, when i talk to a filipino automatically i think and talk in tagalog, same with english. I wish my 6years old daughter could also learn chinese which would definitely be an advantage for her in the future. (Her dad is a filipino, and she speaks english and filipino).

My native tongue is acholi. Besides I'm also fluent in english & french. Swahili will soon be my 4th language.

Interesting 🤔 So ever time I can’t explain something in English is because Spanish is overtaking my thought? I notice that that happens when I’m trying to translate from Spanish to English while having a conversation with someone.

I learned to speak English and Spanish as I was growing up and I noticed I can multitask faster then a monolingual person my attention to detail and focus on my task will not be interrupted. I can easily disregard any unnecessary conversation between two people and respond to the important question or comment As well as translate between both languages....Im 55 and my Brain is still working the same way..I even remember conversations with my friends word for word and when I quote them they finally remember what they said.Your logic is useless because no 2 people have the same generic make up. How are your studies relevant?

I have a very serious question as a bilingual does the one word meaning the same thing has the same effect on the bilingual brain?

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This depends on the word and its meanings in one language or another. For a noun like "table", in general, it is easier to have a similar representation (the actual object), but in Romanian we use the same word "masa" for the object and for the meal itself, so in this situation one needs to learn that in English there are two words that cover the two different meanings of the Romanian word. Likewise, my English speaking students have a hard time to grasp the uses of "ser" and "estar" in Spanish, because they use just one verb in the English translation: 'to be'. That is why it is always better to learn the language in context, as much as possible. So, to answer your question, you get the general concept first, but then you are fine tuning things as you progress with the learning. I do not do brain research, so I do not know which brain area would be affected, my assumption is that those things trigger one another, so for a multilingual brain you might have one main area and then some other spots, all responding the same stimulus.

Speaking many languages can confuse the brain. After 10 languages it pays to discontinue learning. The Brain has a limitation to what it can do in Learning in the short and long term.