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‫68 [שישים ושמונה]‬ ‫גדול – קטן‬

68 [shishim ushmoneh] gadol – qatan

big and small	‫גדול וקטן‬; gadol w'qatan
The elephant is big.	‫הפיל גדול.‬; hapil gadol.
The mouse is small.	‫העכבר קטן.‬; ha'akhbar qatan.
dark and bright	‫כהה ובהיר‬; keheh ubahir
The night is dark.	‫הלילה כהה.‬; halaylah keheh.
The day is bright.	‫היום בהיר.‬; hayom bahir.
old and young	‫זקן וצעיר‬; zaqen w'tsa'ir
Our grandfather is very old.	‫סבא שלנו מאוד זקן.‬; saba shelanu m'od zaqen.
70 years ago he was still young.	‫לפני 70 שנה הוא היה צעיר.‬; lifney 70 shanah hu hayah tsa'ir.
beautiful and ugly	‫יפה ומכוער‬; yafeh umekho'ar
The butterfly is beautiful.	‫הפרפר יפה.‬; haparpar yafeh.
The spider is ugly.	‫העכביש מכוער.‬; ha'akavish mekho'ar.
fat and thin	‫שמן ורזה‬; shamen w'razeh
A woman who weighs a hundred kilos is fat.	‫אישה ששוקלת 100 קילו היא שמנה.‬; ishah sheshoqelet 100 qilo hi shmenah.
A man who weighs fifty kilos is thin.	‫איש ששוקל 50 קילו הוא רזה.‬; ish sheshoqel 50 qilo hu razeh.
expensive and cheap	‫יקר וזול‬; yaqar w'zol
The car is expensive.	‫המכונית יקרה.‬; hamekhonit yeqarah.
The newspaper is cheap.	‫העיתון זול.‬; ha'iton zol.

Two languages = two speech centers!

It doesn't matter to our brain when we learn a language. This is because it has different storage areas for different languages. Not all the languages we learn are stored together. Languages we learn as adults have their own storage area. That means the brain processes the new rules in a different place. They aren't stored with the native language. People who grow up bilingual, on the other hand, only use one region of the brain. Multiple studies have come to this conclusion. Neuroscientists examined various test subjects. These subjects spoke two languages fluently. One part of the test group, however, had grown up with both languages. The other part, in contrast, had learned the second language later in life. Researchers could measure brain activity during language tests. This way they could see which areas of the brain functioned during the tests. And they saw that the "late" learners had two speech centers! Researchers had already long suspected that this would be so. People with brain injuries show different symptoms. So, damage to the brain can also lead to speech problems. Those affected can't pronounce or understand words as well. But bilingual accident victims sometimes show unusual symptoms. Their speech problems don't always affect both languages. If only one area of the brain is injured, the other can still function. Then the patients speak one language better than the other. The two different languages are also re-learned at different speeds. This proves that both languages aren't stored in the same place. Since they weren't learned at the same time, they form two centers. It is still unknown how our brain manages multiple languages. But new findings could lead to new learning strategies.