{"id":70,"date":"2004-06-15T23:34:26","date_gmt":"2004-06-16T04:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/server97.snhdns.com\/~ravik\/wp\/?p=70"},"modified":"2004-06-15T23:34:26","modified_gmt":"2004-06-16T04:34:26","slug":"what-about-being-pentalingual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200406\/what-about-being-pentalingual\/","title":{"rendered":"What about being pentalingual?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"MSNBC - Being bilingual may keep your mind young\" href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/5209379\">MSNBC &#8211; Being bilingual may keep your mind young<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two languages are better than one when it comes to keeping the brain young, Canadian researchers reported Monday.<br \/>\nadvertisement<\/p>\n<p>Older adults who grew up bilingual had quicker minds when tested than people who spoke only one language, the researchers found. They showed less of the natural decline associated with aging.(via <A href=\"http:\/\/www.jivha.com\/blog\/archives\/001453.html\">Jivha<\/A>) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I grew up learning <i>five<\/i> languages (Kannada, Hindi, English Marathi and Tulu) in my childhood. I can read all four out of the five. (Tulu has no script, so no one can read it)  I can speak 3 out of 5 fluently (Kannada, English and Hindi) and write 3 out of 5 well (English, Hindi and Marathi)<br \/>\nI am not bragging. Just saying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC &#8211; Being bilingual may keep your mind young Two languages are better than one when it comes to keeping the brain young, Canadian researchers reported Monday. advertisement Older adults who grew up bilingual had quicker minds when tested than people who spoke only one language, the researchers found. They showed less of the natural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}