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🧠 What does bilingualism do to the brain? 🧠Are there benefits to being bilingual?Turns out there are some surprising upsides.#BBCIdeas #Brain #Science #Hum

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Being bilingual could keep our minds working longer and better into old age, which could have a massive impact on how we school our children and treat older people. In the meantime, it makes sense

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Learn how speaking more than one language can boost your cognitive abilities, enhance your memory, and even protect you from dementia.

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Other benefits of bilingualism. So in the search for activities to keep your brain active, learning a new language is a good bet. "Because even if you don't become bilingual, learning a

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How do snowflakes form? Why do they have six sides? Here's some serious snowflake trivia courtesy of Prof Brian Cox.As it's cold and snow is here! ️ Some ser

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It's obvious that knowing more than one language can make certain things easier -- like traveling or watching movies without subtitles. But are there other advantages to having a bilingual (or multilingual) brain? Educator Mia Nacamulli details the three types of bilingual brains and shows how knowing more than one language keeps your brain healthy, complex and actively engaged.

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Researchers have shown that the bilingual brain can have better attention and task-switching capacities than the monolingual brain, thanks to its developed ability to inhibit one language while using another. In addition, bilingualism has positive effects at both ends of the age spectrum: Bilingual children as young as seven months can better

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From VOA Learning English, welcome to Health in Special English! There is more evidence suggesting that being bilingual is good for your brain. A new study f

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Watch the BBC Ideas Education, Development and Languages playlist. From prisoners getting PhDs to improving your multi-tasking and critical-thinking, browse BBC Ideas on Education, Development and Languages, from The Open University.

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To raise awareness of the benefits of speaking more than one language. To enable students to recognise and use impersonal report structures. To provide students with practice in making predictions and reading to confirm them.

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Dubbed 'the Duolingo of money', UCL startup Your Juno is helping to educate women and non-binary people on the topic of finances. The platform, which consists of hundreds of online courses

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易 What does bilingualism do to the brain? 易 Are there benefits to being bilingual? Turns out there are some surprising upsides. #BBCIdeas #Brain

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Here's nine things we've learnt: You can't ever really trust your brain. That the brain has to filter the world in order to make sense of it is fairly obvious, but the lengths it will go to

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It's been just over three months since BBC Ideas went live, and after the white heat of the launch period I thought I'd share three things I've learnt over the past few weeks. 2. Completion

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As a child, Anne-Marie Imafidon loved taking things apart. Now a tech leader, she's passionate about breaking down stereotypes.At the age of 11, Dr Anne-Mari

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BBC Ideas is a shortform factual video platform from the BBC. It brings together short factual videos from many sources, and organises the videos into playlists by topic.

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I talk about this topic and care so much about it and am so concerned that others are ignoring the fact that it's going to happen to (most) of us.

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Planning Editor, BBC World Service. 2008 - 2010 2 years. BBC World Service. I led the planning operation for The World Today when it won a Sony Gold for Best News and Current Affairs show. I commissioned and edited a number of high-profile series, including: o A show almost entirely presented by students in Afghanistan ahead of the 2009

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Executive Editor, BBC Ideas at BBC · Executive editor at BBC Ideas, where I commission and publish 'short films for curious minds'. <br>Webby award winner six years in a row including best science and education video channel in 2022, 2023 and 2024. Strong track record leading high-performing creative teams and commissioning award-winning factual digital content. <br>Curator of

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Western societies tend to see nature and humanity as separate concepts. But are there other ways of understanding our relationship with planet Earth? Are the

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The Mark Steel Lectures. A lot of this content has already been put online by the BBC. The trouble is, it's now quite hard to find; in many cases, it's easier to find on YouTube than it is on

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If he were alive today, what might Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, make of our obsession with selfies? Here's psychologist and author Tomas Cham

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