[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/sci/ - Science & Math

View post   
File: 5 KB, 302x167, last ned (2).png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
12272443 No.12272443 [Reply] [Original]

Are there any advantages of being bilingual beside being able to communicate with more people? Most anglo-countries are monolingual, and they are doing quite well.

People from Switzerland and Luxembourg are usally trilingual, and they have the highest HDI in the world. However, you can probably find many examples that prove the exact opposite also. People in India usually speak many language, but it doesn't seem to be of any advantages to them. The examples I gave are extremely binary, and there are other variables to take into account of course.

>> No.12272453

>>12272443
There's purported benefits to the brain in terms of executive function, working memory, and prevention or delaying of alzheimer's/dementia. I've recently seen some arguments that those benefits are overstated. Understanding how different languages with different rules work should open you up to thinking in ways that a monolingual can't really understand, and it should also make later language acquisition easier.

>> No.12272459

>>12272443
I honestly think being trilingual from an early age raised my IQ and that is the main reason why I am much smarter than my parents.

>> No.12272460

нeт

>> No.12272479

>>12272459
>I honestly think being trilingual from an early age raised my IQ and that is the main reason why I am much smarter than my parents.
Which languages do you speak? Did your parents have access to the same education as you?

>> No.12272493

>>12272479
>Which languages do you speak?
Three European languages, one of which is English. Obviously.
>Did your parents have access to the same education as you?
I think that is debateable and difficult to ascertain. You could argue that the education back then was probably more rigorous, but they didn't really have the life circumstances to shine. My dad was pretty smart, but he went into the military rather than into further education and eventually got commissioned as an officer, but he left and was basically a criminal until his death (selling illegal things). I reckon he probably killed a few people as well.

>> No.12272523

>>12272493
>I think that is debateable and difficult to ascertain. You could argue that the education back then was probably more rigorous
Same thing for my case. My father is monolingual, but he took an university education. The education was much more strict and rigorous back in the days, and it was mostly focused on being "difficult". Not difficult in the positive way, but they needed to memorize a lot, and you were not able to use aids or sheets during exam. People mostly memorized stuff instead of actually focusing on understanding and implementation.

>> No.12272586

>>12272453
>Understanding how different languages with different rules work should open you up to thinking in ways that a monolingual can't really understand, and it should also make later language acquisition easier.
I entirely agree with this. I believe that I have a completely different view of the English than an Anglo monolingual speaker. The con is that I sometimes struggle to find the right words in my native language.

>> No.12272752

>>12272443
Aren't most indians bilingual or something? that doesn't stop them from shitting in the street

>> No.12272818

Speaking the native language and English fluently makes you an instant Chad in some countries.

>> No.12272830

>>12272818
I'm a Eurofag, but I speak with a British accent since I basically grew up here, and I can 100% having a real English accent is a pussy magnet in Europe and in good ol' USA.

>> No.12272842

>>12272752
They also win in spelling bees and do IT so I dont know

>> No.12273367

>>12272752
Indians beat whites in getting leadership positions in the United States. You'll claim thats because america only takes the best indians but they also beat Chinese people in the US which are also the best of China that America takes. https://www.pnas.org/content/117/9/4590

>> No.12274298

>>12272443
Personnally I find it really depends on the language. English is literally the best language on earth. So if you already speak English, mastering music or coding or literally anything else will bring you more benefits imo.
I find that being bilingual makes you more adaptable but at the very high cost of cynicism, or a lack of desire to conform. It's not obvious to explain, but basically realizing that another culture does something else better makes you lose some love for the first culture and does not allow to to import the benefit in a meaningful way. You just get a sort of melancholy: oh wouldn't it be nice if English also had these other concepts X has. But just because you master these concepts doesn't mean you can share them. It makes you more adaptable to matter but less relatable to people paradoxically.
That's just my 2 cents. My brother has a very different personality and is much more sociable but I do believe that he suffers similarly, it is a great alienation. Whether it made me smarter, probably. But learning to code earlier or learning music etc. might have also made me smarter with the added benefit of actual applications rather than increasing the amount of people I can talk with from literally millions of people to millions and a few million more.