David Crystal

Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs in society; the old language allows you to keep your sense of 'who you are.' It preserves your identity. With two languages, you have the best of both worlds.

English Educator

Sonia Sotomayor

An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.

American Judge

Deborah Raney

I would love to be bilingual. I think having a second or third language at my bidding would open up the world in amazing ways.

American Author

Neha Sharma

In 'Solo,' I play a girl, who is full of life. Since it is a bilingual, the character has two names in two languages.

Indian Actress

Genesis Rodriguez

I think I'm representing a new generation of Latinos - bilingual, bicultural people.

American Actress

Gordie Howe

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

Canadian Athlete

David Henry Hwang

I've studied Chinese in college, but basically, I'm not bilingual.

American Playwright

Henry Cejudo

I'm bilingual. I speak English and Spanish.

American Athlete

Luis Fonsi

Puerto Rican Musician

Diana Taurasi

American Basketball Player

Bilingual means being equally proficient in both languages, not just able to communicate.

Equal Proficiency

Being bilingual offers insight into different cultures, not just language skills.

Cultural Insight

Being bilingual is highly valued and can be a significant advantage in many careers.

Career Advantage

A bilingual person isn't just familiar with two languages, they must be fluent in both.

Fluency Required

Bilinguals can switch between languages effortlessly, which is called code-switching.

Language Switching

Don't assume someone is bilingual based on their appearance or background.

Avoid Assumptions

 If this is what you want to do, you quickly realize you're going to run into two big hurdles, two big obstacles. The first one is a lack of bilinguals. So I don't even know if there exists 100 million people out there using the web who are bilingual enough to help us translate. That's a big problem.

Massive-scale online...

 okay the first one is a lack of bilinguals okay so I don't even know if there exists a hundred million people out there using the web who are bilingual enough to help us translate that's a big problem the other problem that you're going to run into is a lack of motivation how are we going to

 especially because many of the border residents were bilingual. The Dominican government censored any news of the massacre, while bodies were thrown in ravines, dumped in rivers, or burned to dispose of the evidence. This is why no one knows exactly how many people were murdered,

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 But the research also shows that there's nothing that will 100 percent protect you. If the monster wants you, the monster's gonna get you. That's what happened with my dad. My dad was a bilingual college professor. His hobbies were chess, bridge and writing op-eds.

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 and that you are probably a better multitasker. And these are factors that set in early, and so that ought to give you some sense of when to give junior or juniorette lessons in another language. Bilingualism is healthy. And then, third --

4 reasons to learn a new...

 initial, medial, isolated and final. I want to introduce the Arabic language to young learners, foreign speakers, but most importantly help refugees integrate to their host societies through creating a bilingual learning system,

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 chances are you belong to the world's bilingual and multilingual majority. And besides having an easier time traveling or watching movies without subtitles, knowing two or more languages means that your brain

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 And that is no easy task. It takes about two years of training for already fluent bilingual professionals to expand their vocabulary and master the skills necessary to become a conference interpreter.

How interpreters juggle...

 macaw gave out the macaw greeting call but then she said for good measure hello pretty Birds I guess in Miami and pays to be bilingual the first time I ever saw a blue and yellow macaw in Miami as

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 i'm an indie artist i sing bilingual music i had swallowed the message the world loves to tell little girls be grateful for what you have don't take up space be small and i was really good at that