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#LiveTheLanguage Why Learn Posters

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20 Ways to #LiveTheLanguage this Fall!

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Speak Spanish? Learn Portuguese!

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Eight Tips to #LiveTheLanguage Virtually

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World Languages Activity

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12 Ways to Live The Language

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All the Places You'll Go!

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Sources:

1. College – 2016 CollegeBoard Total Group Report, "Working memory development in monolingual and bilingual children" - Julia Morales, Alejandro Calvo & Ellen Bialystok - ScienceDirect

2. Career – Office of The United States Trade Representative and "Why It Pays to Be Bilingual" - AOL

3. Travel and Study Abroad – Scholarships to Study Abroad - Top Universities

4. Worldview – "Studies Suggest Multilingual Exposure Boosts Communication Skills" - NPR

 

Learn a Critical Language!

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Sources:

1. Language Difficulty Ranking

2. "Eight Industries Needing Bilingual Workers" - Anthony Balderrama - CNN

3. "Johnson: What is a foreign language worth?" - The Economist

4. "Learning languages 'boosts brain'" - BBC News

5. "The Cognitive Benefits of Being Bilingual" - Cerebrum

6. "Not Lost in Translation: U.S. Jobs Market Needs Foreign Language Skills" - New American Economy Research Fund

 

Did You Know...?

 

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Sources:

Spanish – SoloSeQueNoSeNada.com, via SpeakingLatino.com and Instituto Cervantes, via SpeakingLatino.com

French – Interesting Facts About the French Language

German – 9 Surprising Facts About the German Language , GermanVeryEasy.com and 30 Interesting Facts about Germany

Chinese – 30 Cool Facts About China

Arabic – 8 Fun Facts You Might Not Know About Arabic

Russian – Russia Facts for Kids

Japanese – Facts About the Japanese Language

Italian – 21 Mildly Interesting Facts About the Italian Language

 

Benefits of Learning Another Language

 

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Sources:

1.  The Cognitive Benefits of Being Bilingual – Viorica Marian & Anthony Shook

2. Bilingual brain training: A neurobiological framework of how bilingual experience improves executive function – Andrea Stocco, Brianna Yamasaki, Rodion Natalenko & Chantel S Prat

3. The Effect of Foreign Language Study in High School on Verbal Ability as Measured by the Scholastic Aptitude Test-Verbal – Peter A. Eddy

4. Bloomberg Institute

5. What are the top 200 most spoken languages?

6. Seventy-five percent of Americans have no second language

7. Eton Institute

8. Kaplan International