The benefits of a bilingual brain

Watch this 5 minute video by TED-Ed, which breaks down how our brains learn languages, difference between children and adults in acquiring a new language, and benefits to you in the long-term.

Scholarly research on bilingualism and multilingualism

So there I was…casually browsing scholarly literature on raising bi/multilingual children, when University of Ottawa’s Dr. Nikolay Slavkov‘s research caught my attention. In a peer-reviewed article published by International Journal of Multilingualism (Routledge), Slavkov concludes regarding three factors related to a child’s development as an active or passive bi/multilingual. Slavkov finds three factors to have