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JohannaK
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Bilinguals are most definitely not immune to Alzheimer's, but they enjoy a delay of up to 5 years in its development.
Borachio
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OK. Never knew that.
5 years is quite a long delay for someone developing it in their 80s, I'd say.
Paul in Saudi
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(Did I manage to upload this correctly?)
https://www.poz.com/article/HIV-risk-25382-5829
(No, obviously not. Little help?)
https://www.poz.com/article/HIV-risk-25382-5829
(No, obviously not. Little help?)
Thorgalaeg
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I knew chance of getting HIV was small, but not that small.
Maybe that graph is somewhat dangerous. People could read and think there is not chance.
Maybe that graph is somewhat dangerous. People could read and think there is not chance.
being bilingual increases your cognitive reserve, enabling you to keep on behaving normal despite your brain being damaged by plagues etc
there are many things that increase your cognitive reserve, but being bilingual is highly effective
a greater cognitive reserve is also great to surpress the negative effects on your behaviour of alcohol intoxication.
Which I see as a kind of risk because the damage on your liver etc is the same as for people with less cognitive reserve resistance.
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Cognitive reserve, eh? That's a new one on me.
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Maybe the more important part in this scheme there is not that prominent shown: If someone has an active infection, your chance of getting it is 37%.
THAT is not negligible.
JohannaK
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You shouldnt get at the graph without reading the article, which does warn of a multiplicity of risk factors.
Here (afaik) there is one compulsory foreign language, starting to be taught pretty soon as well (which imo is not a good idea; the child needs to first be more secure in use of the native language), and that compulsory second language is virtually always english (which makes sense). Some schools also have (or had in the past) french as an alternative for second language, but those were a very small minority.
Moreover there are foreign-language highschools in the two larger cities at least. Eg here we have an american highschool, a german one (goethe institute) and a french one. Of those the american one is only focusing more on english language hours, but the other two use german and french as the actual teaching languages of all subjects.
I went to the american highshool. Can't say it was good. In fact... (no fault of americans, obviously) most of the teachers were appalling.
The campus was easily the best one here, though.
Moreover there are foreign-language highschools in the two larger cities at least. Eg here we have an american highschool, a german one (goethe institute) and a french one. Of those the american one is only focusing more on english language hours, but the other two use german and french as the actual teaching languages of all subjects.
I went to the american highshool. Can't say it was good. In fact... (no fault of americans, obviously) most of the teachers were appalling.
The campus was easily the best one here, though.
JohannaK
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Children are attuned t the sound of a language before their first birthday. They're secure in the use of their language before they enter elementary school.
I'd rather start making a children familiar with the sounds of foreign languags before they're six months old, or they'll significntly lose the ability to discern those not present in their native language. Then again, that means the child will have a delay of up to a year in developing language skills because it will have to learn to discern between the two languages appropriately, but that never stopped bilingualism and it has long-lasting beneficial effects on thir brain and mental health.
I'd rather start making a children familiar with the sounds of foreign languags before they're six months old, or they'll significntly lose the ability to discern those not present in their native language. Then again, that means the child will have a delay of up to a year in developing language skills because it will have to learn to discern between the two languages appropriately, but that never stopped bilingualism and it has long-lasting beneficial effects on thir brain and mental health.
^That isn't what was meant by "secure". I was referring to learning grammar/syntax in the native language first, before having to learn a second language. Cause (afaik) english is being taught as a second language as early as the second year of elementary school, which is rather not a good idea given one first learns how to write one year before.
And there is little relation between grammar in greek and grammar in english.
Which is still ok (one year later than when you start writing/learning rules of the native language), yet some even wanted to make it start in the same year.
And there is little relation between grammar in greek and grammar in english.
Which is still ok (one year later than when you start writing/learning rules of the native language), yet some even wanted to make it start in the same year.
My understanding is, that the optimum is exactly the other way around
First you want to have the "feel" of a language in your subconsciousnes/intuition/pattern-match memory
Then you learn to optimise the ordening of it by grammar/syntax
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Reading enough well written, correctly written text is the last fine tuning
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JohannaK
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Show me proof!
I am fairly confident that this is one of the baseless myths invented because bilingualism is spooky.
I am fairly confident that this is one of the baseless myths invented because bilingualism is spooky.
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That seems contrary to the speech therapy I received as a child which explicitly encouraged utilizing more languages as a means to improve the ability to talk. Perhaps an interesting thread premise.
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