Language learning trains the brain. Learning two languages at an early age develops language skills in general. But bilingual kids also do better in other cognitive subjects – like mathematics.

Trilingual people need less time to learn another new language than bilinguals, a group of researchers from the University of Tokyo and elsewhere showed in an experiment conducted on 49 Japanese ...

Our segment on bilingualism hosts today a young Italian-Australian mother, based in Sydney but originally from Turin. Martina Dezani talked about her experience of bilingualism and her hope to ...

An Italian dad, and Italian-Australian mum and three children born in Australia: Melbourne-based Luca Bottallo tells us how he and his wife are raising Claudia, Leonardo and Francesca bilingually ...

This reduction was not observed in individuals who speak at least two languages (bilinguals). The research was published in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Alzheimer’s disease is a ...