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In reply to the discussion: Second Languages Slow Brain Decline [View all]davidpdx
(22,000 posts)25. This reminds me of a joke...
I live in South Korea and when I was teaching at a university a few years a Korean professor told me this one:
What do you call someone who knows two languages?
Bilingual
What do you call someone who knows one language?
American
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Congrats! I think I'm going to finally learn that French I've been meaning to. I have the tapes &
Honeycombe8
Jan 2013
#40
Well maybe my grandmother would have declined faster if she wasn't multilingual.
mucifer
Jan 2013
#12