The

advantages
of
multilingualism

Alexandrina Ernu,
TIC201FR
A non-unitary & linear world 😊
╚ Ellipsoid with singular dots (symbols)
╚ LANGUAGE :
🌊 ═ with infinite types of waves:
◐ Dead languages ◑ Lost languages
◐ Endangered and very endangered languages
◑ Current languages ◐ Newly created languages
◐ Languages waiting to get into this world

…
⇱ ~ 30 000 - 500 000 languages ⇲
Short lifespan & high death rate
…

TODAY: 6 800 languages ↝ increase // decrease ↝ Most of the human language

domination of the finite languages: Arabic, Chinese
Mandarin, English, French, Hindi, Spanish…
Language diversity and its three main
notions:
users in the world speak more
than one language; they are at
least bilingual. Therefore, it
seems that monolingualism is
the exception and the
multilingualism - the norm ...
1, 2, 3, n possibilities... lowers in
Person in a
triple,
different
quadruple,
forms and
quintuple,
colors
sextuple culture

Microuni
verse ⏩
macrouni
verse
tree with
∞
branches

habitat
sheltering
squirrels,
swallows,
rabbits, little
bugs
 Enhanced communication skills
Diverse social experiences & other Improving a person’s
perspectives ➤ better & working memory
open-minded communicators; More career prospects Better information
available processing capacities,
Increasing value by 10%: more friends and less
a head start in a future mental health disorders
Superior executive functioning career;
Fast and superior reasoning,
planning, problem solving
Convenient traveling || Health Skilled multitask
benefits Ability to multitask /
More opportunity for early
Key to many worlds and cultures to lock on one blocking
diversity
|| positive effect on brain health all distractions
Celebrating diversity in
human cultures; a chance to
learn from differences and
appropriate them
Self-confidence and strength
Mixing languages in speaking

Disadvantages
 Fin

Nothing more to come :)