Making a decision with every word you say may actually be like weightlifting for the brain. Scientists think that's why bilingual people have been shown to have stronger executive functioning skills. (From 2016)
from studying abroad in Mexico City for a couple of days when I asked my dad, “Can I use thedidn’t even really speak Spanish. I had barely been able to hold a conversation for most of the six months I had just spent in Mexico. So why when I needed to do laundry, the only word that came into my head was in Spanish?I thought. *How could I be forgetting English? I thought I was great at English! *“Yes, that!” I said, relieved to recognize a noun I had known and used for over 20 years.
But when I do, my brain is still doing all the same work, Kroll said. It’s just that now I’m choosing English instead of Spanish. Spanish is always there in my brain, forcing me to do a little extra work to find the English words, even though I’ve known them far longer than their Spanish equivalents. “Especially in immersive environments, it’s harder to grab hold of the native language,” Kroll said. “You might have a moment of panic.
Plus, making a decision with every word you say may actually be like weightlifting for the brain. Every time I choose “washing machine” over “lavadora,” or vice versa, my brain gets a little stronger. Kroll thinks this constant cognitive challenge that bilinguals face may be responsible for an observed improvement in what’s called executive function, or the ability to filter out unnecessary information and make decisions.
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