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I am a native speaker that moved to the States at a young age. Because of this I am able to both read and write to a certain degree in my target language. Reading comes fairly easy but I do trip on words that I am not familiar with. However, when it comes to processing the words in my mind, I do not have to think in English and translate it back into Korean because of my time spent in Korea for the first 7 years of my life.
I do agree with the article that being bilingual has benefits. Because bilinguals have to think back and forth between two or more different languages, they use their cognitive processes a lot more than those who don't have to think about languages. Using their cognition so much may have benefits because using the brain is similar to exercise.
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