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Six minute english from bbc learning english dot com
Hello and welcome to six minute english from bbc learning english
I'm nail
And today i'm here with hanna from bbc polygast
What in the world
Hello Hana
Hi knew hanna and the in in world world team been investigtewhat it's like to learn multiple languages
Well she's here to tell us more about it
Welcome to six minute english
Thank you so much about having me
And it's great to have you here now in this progragram
We help you imve your englilish or ybe engenglish is the first language
You have ever ver try to learn
Or maybe you know a lot of languages
Well
Someone who knows multiple languages is called a polyglot
Neil are you a polylot
I speak a little bit of a few languages
But i couldn't say that i'm a polyglot
How about you
I am a polyglot
Well
I 's really impressed of a few intimate
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And now how do we always start our program off with a question
So here it goes
Which country has the most official languages recognized by their government
So is it a zimbabwei b switzerland or see belivia
I would guess zimbabwewell well will find out the answer at the end of the program
Now hanna you've been finding out about some of benefits
Its being being polpolygulot
Yes Nail
There's been lots of research about how knowing more than one language can change your brain
And this might have some health benefits too at what in the world
We spoke to professor flidhgleergewa who's a cocognitive neuroscientist at university college london babies
Even before they speak after to tune into the languages around them to make sense out of what people say to them
And then when children started to speak several languages
They have to focus on one language
And iknow n one one they're speaking
They also have to be able to switch from one language to the other depending on who they speaking to later or in age
When adults have dementia
They seem m to sysymptoms later
When their ilinguals are supposed to monolinguals
We think that juggling several languages has heled them really boost these brain efficiency which is a great advantage is like a brain workout
Fredtorik explains that babies who grow up learning more than one language have to tune into the languages around them
They have to listen to each language over time
They become good at switching languages and ignoring the ones
They don't need in a conversation
Scientists think that juggling several languages is good for you
If you juggle several things that means you deal with all of them at the same time
Fitterik describes being a polyglot as a brain workout
This means it's exercise for your brain
That can make it stronger
Now hana
I don't know about you
When i was younger lanlanguages just seemed like a another subject at school
I didn't really care so much
But when i work ked broad later in life
I was much more motivated and found it easier
How about you
Yeah
Quite the opposite actually
I did find it easier to learn languages at school and university
But i didn't have to learn these languages out of necessity
But my colleague victoria on monkenda
She's a presenter and a journalist on the bb c world service
She did she speaks five languages
And she understands eight
And she learned those languages
Because her family moved from rwanda to canya and then to norway
When she was a teenager
Victoria says she was able to pick up norwegian ite easily
If you pick up a skill
It means you learning it usually by being in the environment
Where that thing happens rather than being taught
But victoria's parents found it much harder to learning norwegian let's hear what vick said on the water in the world podcast first of all you having them coming to a new culture
Completely from everything they ever known the languages knew these are people in their fifties
You were also they sold it on because if you want to work
If you want to live there you have to learn
And they did it wasn't easy
But i think they with us kids we picked it up quite quickly
So if they were making a mistake
Who were also helping them along the way
So you kind of ware of paying back
You helped us get to you know know kekeep up a thguguin here we are going to help you
Victoriapaparents found it difficult to learn norpagiin their
Their ties
And
And they ldier on they
They continue doing something even though it was diffficult
And i love that the family helped each other with their guguage
Hanna Yes
So this parents help them kekeep their mother tongue in iraround a when they had to leave rwanda and then years later
The children help their parents learn norwegian and hanna
Victoria picked up
Norwegian quite easily even after learning four other languages
Did victoria have any tips for learning so many languages
Well one thing she recommended is trying to immerse se yourself in the language
So she said go to the market or in the street
But to try you can listen to people using the language
Yes
In some learers might be learning english online
And so they don't have the opportunity to go to a market or street
And hear the language
But there are other things that you can do for example
You can listen to six minute english
Or we could try other bbaby broadcast like what in the world too
What in the world is the program that i work on
And we puts out a new episode
Every weekday we look at stories from around the world covering news and trending topics
To try to help you make sense of the world time now for the answer to our ququiz question
I ask you
Which country has the most officially recognize languages
I said embmbarabi
And i'm afraid
There was the wrong answer
It was in fact belivia which recognize thirty seven languages
Though of course not everyone speaks all of them
Now let's reak out the vocabulary that we have learned starting with polyglolot
Which is someone who knows lots of languages
Like me
If you tune into something
You listen or pay attention to it
Juggling several things like languages means doing several different things at the same time
A brain work out is exercise for your brain
If you pick up a skill
You learn it usually through practice rather than being taught
And if you soldier on you continue doing something even though it's difficult
Thanks for listening to six minute english
And listeened to the full episode of what in the world about poony
Gotts and learning languages
There's a link in the notes below this program
Thank you so much for having me on six minute english
Goodbye tow oooi diogue
Sianada bye
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