Though it's nothing new that learning a second language can produce a mumbled mind. What surprised me in the fifth issue of TIME magazine in 2013 was the early influence of mother's voice to baby in wombs. Human auditory system is functional from the third trimester on(meaning the last three months till birth). If baby's mother is bilingual, babies can recognize both languages by sucking more vigorously on a pacifier.
Studies show that multilingual people are better at reasoning, at multitasking, at grasping and reconciling conflicting ideas. They work faster and expend less energy doing so, and as they age, they retain their cognitive faculties longer,delaying the onset of dementia and even full-blown Alzheimer's disease.
A bilingual brain is not necessarily a smarter brain, but it is proving to be a more flexibl, more resourceful one. Even U.S., the Monolingualism, is starting to perceive the advantage of being a polyglot. Elementary school students in Utah are involved in the total-immersion language education program by taking half their subjects each day in the new language and the other half in English. Now, students are speaking French, Spanish, Mandarin and soon, Portuguese.
This article asserts my determination to learn the third language, French. Hope I can have a nimble and resourceful brain as well.
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