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Two Languages, One Head: How Speaking Two Languages Changes the Way You Think
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Series: Immigration, Bilingualism & Second-Generation
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ISBN13: 9798170532513
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A phone rings in the next room, and before you've registered whose voice is on the other end, you're already speaking a different language.
For the roughly half of the world's population who live with more than one language, this isn't remarkable, it's Tuesday. But what is actually happening inside a bilingual mind when it moves between languages, sometimes mid-sentence, without a moment's conscious effort? Two Languages, One Head explores the strange, largely invisible traffic that runs through the head of anyone who lives with more than one language, and what that traffic actually does to the mind carrying it.
For the roughly half of the world's population who live with more than one language, this isn't remarkable, it's Tuesday. But what is actually happening inside a bilingual mind when it moves between languages, sometimes mid-sentence, without a moment's conscious effort? Two Languages, One Head explores the strange, largely invisible traffic that runs through the head of anyone who lives with more than one language, and what that traffic actually does to the mind carrying it.
Written by linguist and translator Dr Yavar Dehghani, drawing on both cognitive science and decades of lived experience across Persian, Dari, Azerbaijani, Turkish, and English, this book moves through the real territory of bilingual life: what language you dream in, whether you become a different person in a different language, why swearing, praying, and falling in love land differently depending on which language you're doing it in, and what's actually gained, and lost, in translation.
Inside, you'll find:
One head. Two languages. An entirely different way of thinking than either language could offer alone.
Inside, you'll find:
- How a bilingual brain actually manages two (or more) languages without them colliding
- Whether thought itself has a default language, and what happens when it doesn't
- Why bilingual people often report feeling like a different person in each language
- What swearing, praying, and falling in love reveal about how deeply language shapes emotion
- The real cognitive advantages of bilingualism, and the more modest, honest truth behind the exaggerated claims
- What it's like to grow up between languages, and what it means to lose one
- Practical reflection for anyone raising bilingual children, or navigating their own bilingual identity
- You're bilingual or multilingual yourself, and want to see your own experience explained, not just described
- You're raising children across two languages and want to understand what's actually happening in their developing minds
- You love someone who thinks in a different language than the one they speak to you in
- You're simply curious what one of the most common human experiences on Earth, living with more than one language, actually does to a mind
One head. Two languages. An entirely different way of thinking than either language could offer alone.
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