Being able to speak more than one language is an advantage in its own right. The capability to communicate in another language can boost one’s career prospects, it makes it…Read More >
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Going online during a global pandemic
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has affected all aspects of our personal and professional lives in ways that we could not even have imagined just a few months ago. If someone…Read More >
Defeating dementia
From finding brain changes decades before dementia strikes to exploring the protective effects of speaking another language, Reading researchers are targeting the disease on several fronts. For World Alzheimer’s Day,…Read More >
How speaking another language is good for your brain
Speaking more than one language can change the physical structure of your brain. How and why does this happen, and what implications might this have across our lifetimes from a…Read More >
Emotions shape the language we use, but second languages reveal a shortcut around them
Our native language and emotions are closely woven together. Being bilingual offers an emotional detachment that can be useful for reasoning, but which also makes it easier to swear, says…Read More >