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68 [achtundsechzig] groß – klein

big and small	groß und klein
The elephant is big.	Der Elefant ist groß.
The mouse is small.	Die Maus ist klein.
dark and bright	dunkel und hell
The night is dark.	Die Nacht ist dunkel.
The day is bright.	Der Tag ist hell.
old and young	alt und jung
Our grandfather is very old.	Unser Großvater ist sehr alt.
70 years ago he was still young.	Vor 70 Jahren war er noch jung.
beautiful and ugly	schön und hässlich
The butterfly is beautiful.	Der Schmetterling ist schön.
The spider is ugly.	Die Spinne ist hässlich.
fat and thin	dick und dünn
A woman who weighs a hundred kilos is fat.	Eine Frau mit 100 Kilo ist dick.
A man who weighs fifty kilos is thin.	Ein Mann mit 50 Kilo ist dünn.
expensive and cheap	teuer und billig
The car is expensive.	Das Auto ist teuer.
The newspaper is cheap.	Die Zeitung ist billig.

Two languages = two speech centers!

When we learn a language matters to our brain. 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.