Online Class Notes (Li)

Vocabulary

dementia – the disease that some people get which gives them memory loss

onset – starting point

ex. Being bilingual delays the onset of dementia.

cognitive reserve – people develop a reserve of thinking abilities that can protect them against aging and losses

emotional – rely on/react to emotions

rational – logical, calm and not emotional

opp. irrational 

Grammar

take/have an exam

We haven’t get the exam for Chinese, Math and English.

We haven’t had the exams for Chinese, Math and English.

I ate a Michelin at home.

I had food from a Michelin restaurant at home.

People who are bilingual are more clever

The people who are bilingual, their probability of get the dementia will appear later than the monolingual people.

People who are bilingual are likely to develop dementia 4.5 years later than those who are monolingual.

If you can speak more than one language, your brain will more active than the monolingual people.

If you can speak more than one language, your brain will be more active than the monolingual people.

Among the bilingual people, if one of the group is early to study their second language, their brain is the most active.

Among the bilingual people, those who study their second language early would have the most active brains.

People tend to react more emotionally in their first language, and more rationally in their second language.

Their first language is their most familiar one so when they are speaking their first language, they feel familiar and they can speak it very relaxed. But, for the second language, it might have some reason to study it. If they are going to speak their second language, it might not be so relaxed.

When people speak their first language, they are familiar with it and feel most relaxed. But when they speak their second language, they might not be as relaxed because they are less familiar with it.