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Impact of multilinguism on our brain

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HazarRrd
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08 July 2006 at 9:52am | IP Logged 
I was always wondering:What kind of impact does plurilingualism have on our brain, on the Broca's area? Are the brains of the famous polyglots really that different from the brains of monolingual or bilingual people?What is the difference?If there's the theory that some people have so-called "linguistic abilities" therefore they learn new languages a lot more easier than others,then what is the difference of the brain structure of these people from the brain structure of an average person that doesn't have that outstanding linguistic "talents"?The only information I found about this topic was the article on wikipedia called Hyperpolyglot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperpolyglot
Does anyone have some more information on this topic?
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Sinfonia
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08 July 2006 at 10:13am | IP Logged 
HazarRrd wrote:
I was always wondering:What kind of impact does plurilingualism have on our brain, on the Broca's area? Are the brains of the famous polyglots really that different from the brains of monolingual or bilingual people?What is the difference?If there's the theory that some people have so-called "linguistic abilities" therefore they learn new languages a lot more easier than others,then what is the difference of the brain structure of these people from the brain structure of an average person that doesn't have that outstanding linguistic "talents"?The only information I found about this topic was the article on wikipedia called Hyperpolyglot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperpolyglot
Does anyone have some more information on this topic?


There's a brief, but interesting and recent article on this subject here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4883418.stm
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