The Bilingual Brain

Karl Kim is a Korean and he went to Amercia when he was 10 years old.Karl Kim and Joy Hirsch did a research about children and adults do not use the same parts of brin when learning a second language.They used an instrument called a functional magnetic resonance imager.There are two language centers in the brain called Wernucke's area and Broca's are.People used the same part of Wernicke's area no matter what language they were speaking but Broca's are do not.They found two possibilities, One is that when language is being hard-wired in children, the brain may combine sounds and structures from all languages into the same area. A second possibility is simply that we may acquire languages differently as children than we do as adults.