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		<title>Yet another benefit of being a bilingual child &#8211; Fresh Air on NPR (9/17/2011)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 21:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And here are even more benefits. I wish I grew up bilingually! From Fresh Air: http://www.npr.org/2011/09/14/140340903/how-to-help-your-childs-brain-grow-up-strong &#8220;Kids who learn two languages young are better able to learn abstract rules and to reverse rules that they&#8217;ve already learned,&#8221; says Aamodt. &#8220;They&#8217;re &#8230; <a href="https://multilingualeugene.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/yet-another-benefit-of-being-a-bilingual-child-fresh-air-on-npr-9172011/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=multilingualeugene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17193116&amp;post=573&amp;subd=multilingualeugene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does it help your brain if you use your 2nd language only occasionally? (5/31/2011)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does it help your brain if you use your second language only occasionally? How do monolingual and bilingual kids judge the sentence &#8220;Apples grown on noses&#8221; &#8211; a grammartically correct sentence that doesn&#8217;t make any sense? Find out the answers &#8230; <a href="https://multilingualeugene.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/does-it-help-your-brain-if-you-use-your-2nd-language-only-occasionally/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=multilingualeugene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17193116&amp;post=556&amp;subd=multilingualeugene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being Bilingual May Boost Your Brain Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Tohoku Earthquake</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 03:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan was hit by a massive earthquake. As of 3/20, a week after the earthquake/tsunami, nearly 20,000 people have died or are missing. There are thousands still stranded. My fellow Japanese friends living abroad and I have been very, very &#8230; <a href="https://multilingualeugene.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/the-tohoku-earthquake/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=multilingualeugene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17193116&amp;post=531&amp;subd=multilingualeugene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2 languages make your brain buff &#8211; CNN</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel it in my brain http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/18/foreign-language-learning-good-for-your-brain/<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=multilingualeugene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17193116&amp;post=529&amp;subd=multilingualeugene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update on Eugene school district, 4J</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is very sad that so many students will be affected by this. http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/25846279-57/board-schools-million-elementary-russell.csp<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=multilingualeugene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17193116&amp;post=520&amp;subd=multilingualeugene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thank you for coming last night!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to all the 14 participants (and 3 babies!) for coming last night to my workshop &#8211; that was lot of fun! I am reading the feedback, and they are all very encouraging and inspiring &#8211; I&#8217;ll be posting &#8230; <a href="https://multilingualeugene.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/thank-you-for-coming-last-night/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=multilingualeugene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17193116&amp;post=516&amp;subd=multilingualeugene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Workshop at the Springfield Library (OR) tonight at 6:30! Still 5 spaces available :)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We will be giving a workshop titled &#8220;Raising your child to be bilingual &#8211; myths, facts and tips from current research&#8221; at the Springfield Public Library in Oregon. We hope to see you there! For the Library/workshop flier, please click &#8230; <a href="https://multilingualeugene.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/workshop-at-the-springfield-library-or-tonight-at-630-still-5-spaces-available/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=multilingualeugene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17193116&amp;post=513&amp;subd=multilingualeugene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NPR &#8220;More Americans learn their ABCs in Chinese&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 03:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From NPR News today: &#8220;When President Obama welcomed Chinese President Hu Jintao to the White House on Wednesday, he was joined by a group of students from Washington, D.C.&#8217;s Yu Ying Public Charter School. It&#8217;s a Chinese-language immersion elementary school &#8230; <a href="https://multilingualeugene.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/npr-more-americans-learn-their-abcs-in-chinese/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=multilingualeugene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17193116&amp;post=499&amp;subd=multilingualeugene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Great Wall of Lucy Wu&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 02:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m thinking of reading this book &#8211; it sounds interesting. I grew up in Japan and moved to the States after I finished my undergraduate in Japan, but I wonder how it&#8217;ll be for my son. He was born in &#8230; <a href="https://multilingualeugene.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/the-great-wall-of-lucy-wu/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=multilingualeugene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17193116&amp;post=494&amp;subd=multilingualeugene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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