I'm bilingual! I can speak both English and Spanish.
I think it is a great skill to have to speak more than one language.  It is called mulitlingualism and it is believed that there are more multilingual speaker in the world now than monolingual speakers.
Hm, that's interesting. Living in America, you would think that most people are monolingual. I wonder where most bilingual speakers live.
Aparently more than half of all european cities claim to be multilingual.
That's so cool. I've heard that bilingual people have different wiring in their brains compared to monolingual people. Makes me feel pretty special!
Also research says that multilingual people are much more adept and proficient at learning in general.
More people should be multilingual, if that's the case. I know that learning a new language is hard, but the benefits are overwhelming.
' exposure to multiple languages is becoming increasingly possible. People who speak several languages are also called polyglots.
Multilingual speakers have acquired and maintained at least one language during childhood, the so-called first language (L1). The first language (sometimes also referred to as the mother tongue) is acquired without formal education, by mechanisms about which scholars disagree. Children acquiring two languages natively from these early years are called simultaneous bilinguals. It is common for young simultaneous bilinguals to be more proficient in one language than the
Multilingualism
Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. More than half of all Europeans claim to speak at least one language other than their mother tongue; but many read and write in one language. Always useful to traders, multilingualism is advantageous for people wanting to participate in globalization and cultural openness. Owing to the ease of access to information facilitated by the Internet, individuals