{"id":2193,"date":"2020-06-02T10:54:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T10:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/MorayEALServiceBlog\/?page_id=2193"},"modified":"2020-08-17T09:37:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T09:37:25","slug":"being-bilingual","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/MorayEALServiceBlog\/being-bilingual\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Bilingual"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #666699\">\u201cThe limits of my language are the limits of my world.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #666699\">-Ludwig Wittgenstein<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap has-dropcap__lead-standard-heading\">The words that we have at our disposal affect what we see\u2014and the more words there are, the better our perception. When we learn to speak a different language, we learn to see a bigger\u00a0world.<\/p>\n<p>Many modern language researchers agree with that premise. Not only does speaking multiple languages help us to communicate but bilingualism (or multilingualism) may actually confer distinct advantages to the developing brain&#8230;. It\u2019s a phenomenon that researchers call <a class=\"external-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/31\/science\/31conversation.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/31\/science\/31conversation.html?_r=0&quot;}\">the bilingual advantage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/science\/maria-konnikova\/bilingual-advantage-aging-brain\">https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/science\/maria-konnikova\/bilingual-advantage-aging-brain<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"lvg3mZ29YF\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/bilingualkidspot.com\/2017\/10\/19\/benefits-importance-reading-young-children\/\">Importance of Reading With Kids: 10 Great Benefits<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Importance of Reading With Kids: 10 Great Benefits&#8221; &#8212; Bilingual Kidspot\" src=\"https:\/\/bilingualkidspot.com\/2017\/10\/19\/benefits-importance-reading-young-children\/embed\/#?secret=XaG4dB9cSg#?secret=lvg3mZ29YF\" data-secret=\"lvg3mZ29YF\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ealresources.bell-foundation.org.uk\/learners\/being-multilingual\">Advice for Bilingual Learners and Parents<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Bilingual Books<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.mantralingua.com\/homereading\">Mantra Lingua Dual Language Books<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrenslibrary.org\/icdl\/SimpleSearchCategory?ilang=English\">Click here for free digital books in many languages<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe limits of my language are the limits of my world.\u201d -Ludwig Wittgenstein The words that we have at our disposal affect what we see\u2014and the more words there are, the better our perception. When we learn to speak a different language, we learn to see a bigger\u00a0world. Many modern language researchers agree with that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/MorayEALServiceBlog\/being-bilingual\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Being Bilingual<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8319,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2193","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/MorayEALServiceBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/MorayEALServiceBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/MorayEALServiceBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/MorayEALServiceBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/MorayEALServiceBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/MorayEALServiceBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2892,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/MorayEALServiceBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2193\/revisions\/2892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/MorayEALServiceBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}