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68 [sekstiåtte] stor - liten

big and small	stor og liten
The elephant is big.	Elefanten er stor.
The mouse is small.	Musa er lita.
dark and bright	mørk og lys
The night is dark.	Natta er mørk.
The day is bright.	Dagen er lys.
old and young	gamal og ung
Our grandfather is very old.	Bestefar vår er veldig gamal.
70 years ago he was still young.	For sytti år sidan var han ung.
beautiful and ugly	fin og stygg
The butterfly is beautiful.	Sumarfuglen er fin.
The spider is ugly.	Edderkoppen er stygg.
fat and thin	tjukk og tynn
A woman who weighs a hundred kilos is fat.	Ei kvinne på hundre kilo er tjukk.
A man who weighs fifty kilos is thin.	Ein mann på femti kilo er tynn.
expensive and cheap	dyr og billeg
The car is expensive.	Bilen er dyr.
The newspaper is cheap.	Avisa er billeg.

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.