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9 Myths about Bilinguals

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9 Myths about Bilinguals
There are many myths about who can be called a bilingual, and about the whole phenomenon of bilingualism. Here are the most common ones: Bilingualism is a rare phenomenon. Nope! According to a rough statistics calculation, more than half the world's population uses two or more languages. So in today's world, monolingualism is a more rare phenomenon. Bilingualism is common in even officially monolingual countries - it unites people of different age...

Stranger in a Strange Land- Process of Adaption to a New Cultural Environment

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Stranger in a Strange Land- Process of Adaption to a New Cultural Environment
According to the UK National Statistics Office, only in 2015 the country adopted 630,000 immigrants. It’s a little more than entire population of Glasgow. Or one and a half of Manchester. On the one hand, these people brought a part of their lives with them. Due to migration image of the country and its culture are changing. But immigrants themselves change a lot more. After moving they have to go through long and difficult, but to a certain extent an exci...