Bilingual speakers use the same brain regions for both languages

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Bilingual speakers utilize the same brain regions for both their native and second languages. Researchers found that Spanish-English speakers engaged identical brain areas to apply grammatical rules, like forming plurals, in both languages, even with novel words. This suggests the brain reuses a universal mechanism for language, potentially making it easier to learn additional languages.


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