Thecontinualeffortofsuppressing a languagewhenspeakinganother, alongwiththementalchallengethatcomeswithregularlyswitchingbetweenlanguages, exercisesourbrain.
A keybreakthroughcamebackin 2007 inTorontowhenEllenBialystokandherteammade a discoverythatshookthescientificcommunityandhasmassivereal-worldimplications.
重要なブレークスルーは、2007年にトロントでエレン・バイアリストックと彼女のチームが発見した。
Itwasthefirststudywhichsuggestedthatbilingualpeople, peoplewhospeakmorethanonelanguage, developdementiafourtofourand a halfyearslaterthanthosewhodon't.
Soweinvitedthreegroupsofchildrenthatwereaged 8 to 10, andwehad a groupofchildrenwhoweremonolinguals, a groupofchildrenwhohadearlyexposuretoGreekandEnglishfrombirth, theywereourearlybilinguals, andfinallywehad a groupwhohadbeenexposedtoEnglishbetweentheagesof 2 and 5, andtheywereourlaterbilinguals.
A littlebitlikeifyou'regoingtothegymeveryday, yourmusclesmightlookbiggeratrest, wheresimilarlyyourbrainmightbebetterconnectedatrestbecauseyouarelearning a languageearly.