What happens to the brain when learning a new language?

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What happens to the brain when learning a new language?

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Flagged up by Steven Pinker via Twitter, I found this to be an interesting article in The Guardian - and very topical everywhere as so many people learn more than one language but in different ways:
What happens in the brain when you learn a language?

Scans and neuroscience are helping scientists understand what happens to the brain when you learn a second language

by Alison Mackay

4th September 2014
http://www.theguardian.com/education/20 ... CMP=twt_gu
Debbie Hepplewhite
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