Learning Journal 9

[Maddie Philips]

I think that calling bilingual people smarter is misleading, because intelligence is measured in many different ways. In the context of the article, intelligence is the ability to think about things from different angles, because of how quickly the brain works when moving from one language to another. While bilinguals might in general be better at certain puzzles, bilingualism itself does not guarantee an increased mental capacity, nor does monolingualism guarantee that a persons' brains lack the capabilities of thinking the way that bilingual people do. I think it would be interesting to study the brains of people who are better/worse at learning languages over the brains of those who already have learned them.