Hi,
wonder if u guys who learn Dharma in English but interested to
know what it means in mother tongue or vice versa?
Here's a perk of your hard work for translating:
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/TechandScience/Story/STIStory_636728.html
WASHINGTON - SPEAKING more than one language protects the
brain against cognitive decline and makes a person better at
multi-tasking, researchers said on Friday at a major US science
conference.
Being bilingual, or even learning a second language late in
life, has been shown to slow the decline of some key brain
functions, said Ellen Bialystok of York University in Canada, at
the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS).
A study co-authored by Bialystok found that people who spoke
more than one language were diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease 4.3
years later and reported the onset of symptoms 5.1 years later than
monolingual patients.
Another study, the results of which have not yet been
published, used computed tomography, or CT, scans to show that
bilinguals had the same level of cognitive decline as monolinguals
even when the people who spoke multiple languages were at a more
advanced stage of Alzheimer's, Ms Bialystok said.
'One of the reasons bilingualism has these powerful
mechanisms including protecting against early symptoms of dementia
is because it's one way to keep your brain active,' Ms Bialystok
told reporters at the meeting.
'Every little bit helps. The longer you've been bilingual,
the more you use all your languages, the more fluent you are, all
of those things contribute. -- AFP