{"id":34,"date":"2008-04-04T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=34"},"modified":"2011-07-27T11:16:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T15:16:54","slug":"learning-languages-brain-workout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/learning-languages-brain-workout\/","title":{"rendered":"LEARNING LANGUAGES: BRAIN WORKOUT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows that knowing a second or third language boosts your brain activity, but do you know to what extent that happens? If you have intermediate to advanced Spanish, read this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavanguardia.es\/lv24h\/20080301\/53441397330.html\">article <\/a>from La Vanguardia, a Spanish newspaper. If you don\u00b4t, let me sum it up for you. First, kids who grow up bilingual have more brain plasticity; they multitask more easily. Second, learning and knowing a second or third language uses parts of your brain that knowing only your mother tongue doesn\u00b4t. Third, adults do have more difficulty learning a foreign language because of their experience in their native language. It deforms your perception and teaches your brain to ignore certain sounds. This is a very good and informative article and it\u00b4s worth the read. If you have doubts about vocabulary, post them here and I\u00b4ll help you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows that knowing a second or third language boosts your brain activity, but do you know to what extent that happens? If you have intermediate to advanced Spanish, read this article from La Vanguardia, a Spanish newspaper. If you don\u00b4t, let me sum it up for you. First, kids who grow up bilingual have&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/learning-languages-brain-workout\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}