Tag: multilingualism

• S2 E2: Charlene Vela on dance aesthetics, Asian accents, and what to do if you don’t know how to pronounce someone’s name.

  

  Summary GUEST Charlene is a Filipino American. She was born in Switzerland and moved to the states with her parents and younger brother when she was four years old, living most of her life in Texas. During the day she works at a tech company in Austin, and in her free time she loves being…

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  December 4, 2022

  Asian American Guests, Beauty standards, Bilingualism, Feminism, filipino-american, Microaggression, Patriarchal cultural norms, Racism due to COVID-19

  ballet aesthetics, filipino-american, gender roles, multilingualism

• S1 E11: Dr. Ashley Chung-Fat-Yim on how bilinguals’ brains differ from monolinguals’, and how bilingualism improves performance at other tasks.

  

  This week, Dr. Ashley Chung-Fat-Yim brings some excellent news for bilinguals! Find out how speaking another language makes your brain more efficient, as early as infancy. You do not want to miss this one.

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  July 10, 2022

  Asian Canadian Guests, bilingualism, Bilingualism, Careers, How bilingualism affects the brain, psycholinguistics, STEM

  attention, biculturalism, Bilingualism, brain training, dr chung-fat-yim, duolingo, executive function, foreign language effect, multi sensory emotion perception, multilingualism, Northwestern university, psycholinguistics, spotlight effect