This week we had to read two articles. The article "Why Bilinguals are Smarter" states that people that are bilingual are smarter than people who are not. The article mentioned that bilinguals can concentrate better than monolinguals and that they are good at moving their attention from one thing to the next without a problem. As a bilingual myself, I think that being bilingual is awesome! I don't know if that makes me smarter than a monolingual, but I do know that I think and experience things differently as a bilingual. Knowing both Spanish and English is advantageous because not only can I understand and relate to other cultures, but I can express myself in many other ways.
The second article we had to read was called “Are bilinguals really smart?" In this article, the author was wondering is bilinguals are actually smarter than monolinguals. The author mentioned that bilinguals have the advantage of knowing more vocabulary words than monolinguals, but the amount they know is specific to the language they speak. Like I mentioned before, I think bilinguals have a great advantage when it comes to understanding and relating to other cultures as well as expressing themselves, but I am not so sure if they are smarter than monolinguals.
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