After reading two articles, I still believe there are several advantages of being bilingual. Nowadays, more and more children have capacity and facility to learn more than one language, and more and more parents want their kids to speak more languages other than their native languages. Sometimes the parents expect their kids to speak more than one language not for improving the intelligences, but for mastering another ability so that their kids would get more opportunity in the world communicating with different people. To be global.
Personally, I prefer to be multilingual and from my personal experience. I think being a bilingual is helpful for me to learn new words easily, to use information in new ways, to put words in categories, to come up with solutions to problems, to have a good listening skills and become easier to connect with others. I agree with the sentence in the article that the key difference between bilinguals and monolinguals may be more basic: a heightened ability to monitor the environment. Therefore, I think being bilingual is "smarter" .
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