• 9 months ago
Credit:
Source: BBC | https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220719-how-speaking-other-languages-changes-your-brain
Recording Application: Bandicam

VOCABULARY
counterintuitive (adj): sth not happening in the way you would expect it to

manifest itself in sth: shows sth clearly (esp. feeling, an attitude or a quality)

encompass: include

albeit: although

haphazardly: randomly

Reversed dominance effects = reversal of language dominance

day-to-day life = daily, on a daily basis

navigating (an interference): find a right way to deal with a difficult situation (in this case, an interference)

pull back on the reins: take control/ slow down and doing sth more caustiously

dalay onset of: delay the beginning of (esp. sth unpleasant like a disease/old age/winter)

spare my blushes (British): refrain from causing someone embarrassment.

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