Hearing Bilingual – the benefits of foreign language learning for young kids

Hearing Bilingual – the benefits of foreign language learning for young kids

The New York Times published an article entitled: “Hearing Bilingual: How Babies Tell Language Apart.”  The demand for foreign language education programs is growing among parents who realize both the cognitive and social benefits of their children growing up  multilingual. In a new study, researchers at the University of Washington measured the electrical brain responses [...]

Why Google Translate wouldn’t be possible without Harry Potter

Why Google Translate wouldn’t be possible without Harry Potter

Anyone who’s ever used an online translation tool knows that it’s a rather imperfect art.  Take a given sentence, run it through the translator, and then translate it back to English.  The result will be at best a little garbled, but will usually be pretty much incomprehensible. Here is what happens, for example, when you [...]