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.
One of the areas where the bilingual advantage appears to be most persistent isnât related to a particular skill or task: itâs a general benefit that seems to help the aging brain. Adults who speak multiple languages seem to resist the effects of dementia far better than monolinguals do.