Popular Press

• “Why Bilinguals Are Smarter” (New York Times) by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee. Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age.

• “Hearing Bilingual: How Babies Sort Out Language” ( New York Times) by Perri Klass, M.D. Once, experts feared that young children exposed to more than one language would suffer “language confusion,” which might delay their speech development. 

• “Being Bilingual May Boost Your Brainpower” (NPR) by Gretchen Cuda-Kroen.

• “Do children have the right of privacy?” (NPR) by Allie Caren.

• “Learning Languages ‘Boosts Brain“ (BBC). Learning a second language “boosts” brain-power, scientists believe.