SciShow Psych | Will Learning Another Language Make You Smarter?

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Episode Title: Will Learning Another Language Make You Smarter?
Produced by: SciShow Psych
Description: Go to http://curiositystream.com/psych to start streaming The History of English. Use the promo code ‘psych’ during the sign-up process to get your first 31 days free. People used to say being bilingual was bad for your brain. Now, we know that's not true—but does it actually make you smarter? Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945215001380 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1366728914000522 https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797614557866 https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000142 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1366728914000522 https://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/faq-raising-bilingual-children https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/540/bilingtl/myths.html https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/life-bilingual/201106/what-are-the-effects-bilingualism https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bilingual-parenting-qa-children-confused-two-soile-pietik%C3%A4inen http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=912 https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-benefits-of-bilingualism.html https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/07/being-bilingual-good-for-brain-mental-health https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190118123014.htm Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/newspaper-gm508273083-46039252 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/cute-baby-boy-vector-illustration-gm895380946-247396753 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/rear-view-of-students-learning-chinese-writing-on-chalkboard-gm460766243-31699184 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/cute-little-girl-playing-the-guitar-gm186566205-27774685 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/science-publication-gm149217316-12734320 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/girl-buying-books-in-budapest-gm901265628-248647357


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