Alan Jones
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:52 pm
Post subject: Re: Learning a second language boosts the brain power |
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| Quote: | On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:52:10 GMT, "Alan Jones" <atj@blueyonder.co.uk
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anyonghaseo writes:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3739690.stm
The british finally got it!.
I'd like to know how many brainy Brits (or indeed Americans) speak a
language other than their native English - speak it fluently. I mean. Can
someone carry out a survey of, say, the winners of Nobel prizes for the
sciences and members of the Royal Academy or its US counterpart? That
might,
or might not, prove the theory that learning a second language when very
young makes someone generally more intelligent.
sticks head above the parapet just long enough to say:
Science *is* a second language.
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Well, yes, though perhaps not learned in the cradle. And what about music?
Don't they say that constantly hearing Mozart raises a baby's IQ to genius
level, or something like that? (I wonder why Haydn won't do instead . . .)
Alan Jones
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