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World Language Initiative – Making language and culture education available for all Montanans -How a second language can boost the brain

June 28, 2024/

WLI – MT strives to create accessible pathways to multi-language learning and heightened global awareness. Through making language & culture education available, Montanans will have improved access and desire to celebrate diversity in their communities.

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How a second language can boost the brain

Being bilingual benefits children as they learn to speak — and adults as they age

Learning new languages re-wires brains of all ages

“Like physical exercise, the more you use specific areas of your brain, the more it grows and gets stronger.”

The Sooner You Expose A Baby To A Second Language, The Smarter They’ll Be

Just hearing two languages helps babies develop cognitive skills before they even speak. Here’s how – and how you can help them develop those skills.

Babies can learn second language in 1 hour per day

“With the right science-based approach that combines the features known to grow children’s language, it is possible to give very young children the opportunity to start learning a second language, with only one hour of play per day in an early education setting,” she says. “This has big implications for how we think about foreign-language learning.”

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