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Chinese is the most natively-spoken language in the world
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Educational Record Bureau (ERB) Comprehensive Testing Program
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The Cognitive Benefits of Immersion
A study by researchers with the Wellcome Trust in the United Kingdom found “people who speak Mandarin Chinese use both temporal lobes of their brain to understand the language” in contrast to English-language speakers who use only the left temporal lobe. Even the practice of writing Chinese characters benefits the brain.
Read the article: Learning Chinese Pays Dividends: Of Characters and Cognition, asiasociety.org
Immersion By the Numbers