March 19, 2012
Published by Bay Language Academy on March 19, 2012
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Rendez vous Always Knew ‘Bilinguals Are Smarter’

Marcus Mabry, March 19, 2012 PARIS — Of course, we already knew this, those of us who are bilingual: We are smarter than other people. Still, […]
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March 17, 2012
Published by Bay Language Academy on March 17, 2012
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Why Bilinguals Are Smarter

Yudhijit Bhattacharje – March 17, 2012 Speaking two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, […]
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March 9, 2012
Published by Bay Language Academy on March 9, 2012
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Adventure of a Teenage Polyglot

JOHN LELAND – March 9, 2012 Some people pick up a little Hebrew before their bar mitzvahs, or learn Spanish from their mothers, or can speak […]
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February 27, 2012
Published by Bay Language Academy on February 27, 2012
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Bay Language Academy in the Alameda Patch

February 27, 2012 When did you open the Bay Language Academy? We opened the week of Labor Day 2011. What inspired you to start the Academy? […]
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February 19, 2012
Published by Bay Language Academy on February 19, 2012
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Why Every Professor Needs Linguistics 101

Susan Behrens – February 19, 2012 By now it should be obvious that grammar instruction doesn’t benefit anyone. Students hate it; teachers never learned grammar themselves, […]
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February 10, 2012
Published by Bay Language Academy on February 10, 2012
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Reasons to Learn Sign Language

Melanie Slaugh – Feb 10, 2012 First off, what is sign language?  For deaf or hard of hearing people, sign language is the way they communicate […]
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January 14, 2012
Published by Bay Language Academy on January 14, 2012
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Are We Really Monolingual?

Michael Erard – January 14th, 2012 Americans are often told that in today’s globalized world, we are at a competitive disadvantage because of our lazy monolingualism. […]
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December 22, 2011
Published by Bay Language Academy on December 22, 2011
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2012: The Year Mandarin Chinese Becomes a ‘Commonly Taught Language’?

Chinese as a language has a unique contribution to make to American education — its character-based writing system, tones and long continuous cultural history make it both challenging and inherently interesting for a native English speaker. Learning languages as different from English as Chinese opens a whole new world of insights, perspectives and possibilities to students here. For that reason alone, this is a language well worth studying.
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November 30, 2011
Published by Bay Language Academy on November 30, 2011
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Two or More Languages in Early Childhood: Some General Points and Practical Recommendations

Annick De Houwer – November 2011 In an increasingly diversified and multilingual world, more and more young children find themselves in an environment where more than […]
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