Recent studies have found that bilingual children, those that speak two languages fluently, are more adept at switching back and forth between such images than monolingual children.
This sounds crazy, but I guarantee you that it's one of the ways that you know, if you are coming actually bilingual (means you can speak two languages) or trilingual.
But now let's listen to neuropsychologist Dr Catherine Loveday talking about why being bilingual may protect your brain from damage if you have a stroke.
" It's not the good memory that bilinguals have that is delaying cognitive decline, " Bak told me. " It's their attention mechanism. Their ability to focus in on the details of language" .
In fact, those who have grown up in bilingual households are consistently more sensitive to subtle language differences compared to their monolingual counterparts.
Yuji grew up in a bilingual community in Japan with his Irish mother and Japanese father, but says he never felt completely accepted as a Japanese person.