Using the table above we can see that we need. 1  108 lux (or 10 footcandles) for ambient lighting. 2  538 lux (or 50 footcandles) for task lighting for food preparation.
At a time when other types of bilingual education are on the decline and the B-wordâbilingualâhas been scrubbed from the U.S. Department of Education lexicon, dual language programs are showing promise in their mission to promote biliteracy and positive cross-cultural attitudes in our increasingly multilingual world.
Believe it or not, being bilingual makes you smarter and greatly improves your cognitive skills. Along with excellent puzzle skills, some of the other benefits from being bilingual include improved memory, improved decision making skills, better multitasking skills and a better focus on tasks. These benefits alone make it worth your while to learn another language or more.