Functions of a Bilingual Brain with Jim Kwik

When I was nine years old, a teacher pointed to me in front of my class and called me “the boy with the broken brain.”For years, I believed that label. Learning felt difficult, reading was exhausting, and remembering information seemed almost impossible. But that struggle eventua ...  Show more

Most people want more focus, creativity, and better performance. But in a world built around constant distraction and AI-generated answers, the skills that make those things possible are becoming easier to lose.In this episode of the Kwik Brain podcast, I sit down with Steven Kot ...  Show more

It's obvious that knowing more than one language can make certain things easier -- like traveling or watching movies without subtitles. But are there other advantages to having a bilingual (or multilingual) brain? Educator Mia Nacamulli details the three types of bilingual brains ...  Show more

Language allows us to connect with people from around the world. It opens our minds and hearts to new experiences and different ways of life. But learning a new language can be really difficult, so how did we do it as children? And are our adult brains even cut out for learning n ...  Show more

More than half the world’s population speaks more than one language. Viorica Marian, PhD, of Northwestern University, talks about why speaking multiple languages may have far-reaching cognitive benefits, how the bilingual brain processes language and how the languages we speak sh ...  Show more