Is being bilingual good for you brain? |…

Basic info

Is being bilingual good for you brain? | BBC Ideas

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Material infomation

🇺🇸 English

EducationScience

6 min

750 words

288 unique words

High intermediate

judged from the text: 85% high intermediate, 15% advanced · 187 wpm

Vocabulary bands

Share of the text in each vocabulary band

60%

SB

14%

BG

13%

LI

9.4%

HI

3.6%

AD

Core words

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bilingual×9 cognitive×5 complex×3 region×2 dementia×2

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