Being an adult is hard. And in our vast techno-digital landscape,
there are millions of screaming voices, but too few voices to tell us
what we need to know to be proper, respectable grown-ups. To help weed
through the noise, Motherboard has partnered with the smart minds at
the Stuff You Should Know blog to bring you a weekly column about real life.
By the arrival of this, the tenth installment of our guide to proper adulthood
here on Motherboard, you are surely now a proper adult. So we will take
our leave of your development. We wish you the best of luck in the
continued adventure of being an adult! But first, let us argue for
expanding your intelligence and experience of the human condition one
last time by telling you why you need to learn another language.
It is thanks to two people living with brain damage in the 19th century,
one with epilepsy and one with a stroke, that we understand how we
process language. (Oh, and decades of linguistics research probably
helped too.) After being able to closely physically study one of his
recently-deceased patients, early German neurologist Carl Wernicke found
a lesion on a particular region of the man’s brain. This lesion was
important because, following his stroke, the man could not understand
what other people said to him.
For the rest of the story: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/why-you-should-learn-another-language-1
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