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ahalan
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The Benefits of Bilingualism
>These processes include ignoring distractions to stay focused, switching attention willfully from one thing to another and holding information in mind
I'm trilingual and I can assure you it doesn't help with the ADD problem
halostatue
on March 18, 2012
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My wife would concur with you. Of course, her German is nonstandard enough that her extended family in Germany calls it AnnaMariaDeutsch.
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I'm trilingual and I can assure you it doesn't help with the ADD problem