June 2011
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The Bilingual Advantage
is the title of an article in today’s New York Times.
An excerpt:
Q. Bilingualism used to be considered a negative thing — at least in the United States. Is it still?
A. Until about the 1960s, the conventional wisdom was that bilingualism was a disadvantage. Some of this was xenophobia. Thanks to science, we now know that the opposite is true.
Exactly. I can tell you it lasted...
