Journal Entry 10: Discovery Journal Assignment Reflective Note

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Journal Entry 2: Why Do Languages Have Gender? by Lexicon Valley Podcast

Fig. 1. Still from Lexicon Valley. I am a new listener of Lexicon Valley Podcast, and I ran across an episode with a subject that seemed very interesting and answered a question I hadn’t previously thought to ask. Why do languages have gender, and more importantly, why doesn’t the English language have that? Having an advantage of being bilingual in Spanish, I was instantly struck with this question and realized it had never occurred to me that English doesn’t follow the same pattern of adding gender to nouns. First, Some Rules: Lexicon Valley Podcast’s host, John McWhorter, tackles this question expertly. In some languages, gender is divided between masculine and feminine, and some gender rules in some languages makes sense. McWhorter continues and states that the gendered feminine and mascul...

Journal Entry 8–Ted Ed’s–The Benefits of a Bilingual Brain

Fig. 1. Still from Ted Ed’s website. In this TED Ed video, Mia Nacamulli explains that being bilingual means you know two languages, while multilingual means you know more than two. However, being bilingual isn’t just an external show of knowledge, bilinguals are also different internally – especially in the brain. Nacamulli states that the brain of bilingual people actually looks and works differently than the brains of those who are monolingual (or who just know one language). acamulli explains that language ability is measured in two parts: active and passive. In the active part, the tasks of speaking and writing happen, while in the passive parts, listening and reading take place. While a balanced bilingual has an almost equal ability in two languages, most bilinguals use their language in various degrees. This is determined by the age in which they were exposed to a second language. Nacamulli states there are three classi...

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