Being bilingual may also bring long-term benefits for mental well being. Wednesday story and language

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/bilingual-speakers-time-different-people-one-language-study-swedish-spanish-a7715146.html

For those who can speak only one language, people who have the ability to speak several are often a source of fascination. What language do they think in? Can they switch mid-way through? Do they dream in one language or both?

It turns out these questions are not without merit as people who can speak two languages actually experience time in a different way.

A study from Lancaster University and Stockholm University, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, found that people who arebilingual think about time differently depending on the language context in which they are estimating the duration of events.

comment- ...communication is quite completely different and separate from language, the later internal to a system, temporally expressed (multiple recursions from different times) and entropically evolved whereas the former the opposite: transmitted, entropically expressed so to speak and without time, or temporal representation. The present eternal. Languages talk to themselves across times (and relative space). All of us are multilingual...