Bilingual describes a person who can speak two languages.

双语指是能说两种语人。

I mean, the sound distribution of both languages is different.

我意思是，两种语声音分布是不同。

Stacks of research papers have suggested that two-tongued people enjoy a variety of nonlinguistic advantages.

大量研究论文表明，会说两种语人享有各种非语优势。

It's good for them because they end up as bilingual adults - speaking two languages fluently.

这对他们有利，因为他们都会为双语人——流利说两种语人。

Tests in America found that bilingual people had lower IQS, which seemed evidence enough.

在美国，经测试发现，掌握两种语人智商较低，这似乎是有力证据。

Experts say that children who grow up with parents who speak two languages can often speak both languages very well.

专家说，在父母会说两种语情况下长大孩子通常也能说两种语。

And we need to treat it as two different languages.

我们需要把它当两种不同语。

No two languages are the same!

没有任何两种语是一样！

And there are a few sounds that do not exist in both languages.

而且有一些音不是两种语中都存在。

But how would an infant brain know that it's learning two different languages?

但婴儿大脑怎么知道它正在学习两种不同语呢？

What this is is there's one compiler here that supports these two different language modes.

这意味着有一个编译程序能够支持这两种不同语模型。

Does speaking more than two provide any additional benefit?

使用两种以上语有什么额外好处吗?

The answer is " trilingual." What do you call someone who can speak two languages?

答案是“三种语”。你怎么称呼会说两种语人？

So, " bilingual" means two languages – someone who speaks two languages.

所以，“双语”意味着两种语——说两种语人。

Cuaya said that dogs could understand the differences in how the two languages are spoken.

库亚说，狗可以理解这两种语在说方式上差异。

Oh, yes, I type and take shorthand in two languages.

对了, 我有两种语打字和速记技能.

The researchers also found that the older the dogs were, the better they were able to distinguish between the two languages.

研究人员还发现，狗龄越大，它们区分这两种语能力就越强。

450. Being bilingual is not necessarily having the ability to understand two languages.

为双语者并不一定要有理解两种语能力。

G) People who speak two languages often outperform monolinguals on general measures of executive function.

G) 说两种语人在执行功能一般衡量标准上往往胜过单语者。

As you can guess, bilingual children keep all the phonemes from both languages, but only if they learn both from infancy.

如你所想，双语儿童只有在从婴儿时期开始学习两种语时，才能保留来自两种语所有音素。