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- noun Plural form of
bilingual .
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Examples
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Similarly, those who were exposed to two languages like English and French were termed bilinguals.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Alasdair MacIntyre (1988, 1989) has illustrated the difference between being able to understand a tradition and being able to translate all its claims into the language of another tradition by pointing to the possibility of "bilinguals" -- people who, for example, might have been raised within one community and its tradition, and then through migration or conquest, become a member of another community and its different tradition.
Comparative Philosophy: Chinese and Western Wong, David 2005
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Half of the babies were "crib" bilinguals, meaning two languages were spoken at home, while the other half were monolingual.
Macleans.ca 2009
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That would explain why all bilinguals, whether they use two spoken languages or one spoken and one unspoken, have those moments more often: all the words they know are used less frequently than the words known by someone who only speaks one language.
It’s on the tip of my tongue… ewillett 2010
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That would explain why all bilinguals, whether they use two spoken languages or one spoken and one unspoken, have those moments more often: all the words they know are used less frequently than the words known by someone who only speaks one language.
It’s on the tip of my tongue… ewillett 2010
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ME: There's a myth that hyperpolyglots have all of their languages to an equally high, native-like level, but this isn't the case, just as it's relatively rare to find bilinguals who are perfectly balanced in both of their languages.
Nataly Kelly: Adventures in Hyperpolyglottery: Inside the Mind of Extreme Language Learners Nataly Kelly 2011
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If you start from the premise that bilinguals don't know the same as two monolinguals, then trying to achieve a monolingual's level of knowledge and performance in your new language is going to frustrate you.
Nataly Kelly: Adventures in Hyperpolyglottery: Inside the Mind of Extreme Language Learners Nataly Kelly 2011
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The study has proved a significant relation in the high performance among fluent bilinguals in both languages, supporting the threshold theory by Cummins (1976), who stated that bilinguals who achieve high levels of proficiency in both their languages are cognitively more advanced than those with a low level in one language, or monolinguals.
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If you start from the premise that bilinguals don't know the same as two monolinguals, then trying to achieve a monolingual's level of knowledge and performance in your new language is going to frustrate you.
Nataly Kelly: Adventures in Hyperpolyglottery: Inside the Mind of Extreme Language Learners Nataly Kelly 2011
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ME: There's a myth that hyperpolyglots have all of their languages to an equally high, native-like level, but this isn't the case, just as it's relatively rare to find bilinguals who are perfectly balanced in both of their languages.
Nataly Kelly: Adventures in Hyperpolyglottery: Inside the Mind of Extreme Language Learners Nataly Kelly 2011
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