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68 [예순여덟] 커요 – 작아요

68 [yesun-yeodeolb] keoyo – jag-ayo

big and small	커요 그리고 작아요; keoyo geuligo jag-ayo
The elephant is big.	코끼리는 커요.; kokkilineun keoyo.
The mouse is small.	쥐는 작아요.; jwineun jag-ayo.
dark and bright	어두워요 그리고 밝아요; eoduwoyo geuligo balg-ayo
The night is dark.	밤은 어두워요.; bam-eun eoduwoyo.
The day is bright.	낮은 밝아요.; naj-eun balg-ayo.
old and young	늙었어요 그리고 젊었어요; neulg-eoss-eoyo geuligo jeolm-eoss-eoyo
Our grandfather is very old.	우리의 할아버지는 매우 늙었어요.; uliui hal-abeojineun maeu neulg-eoss-eoyo.
70 years ago he was still young.	칠십 년 전에 그는 아직 젊었어요.; chilsib nyeon jeon-e geuneun ajig jeolm-eoss-eoyo.
beautiful and ugly	아름다워요 그리고 못생겼어요; aleumdawoyo geuligo mos-saeng-gyeoss-eoyo
The butterfly is beautiful.	나비는 아름다워요.; nabineun aleumdawoyo.
The spider is ugly.	거미는 못생겼어요.; geomineun mos-saeng-gyeoss-eoyo.
fat and thin	뚱뚱해요 그리고 말랐어요; ttungttunghaeyo geuligo mallass-eoyo
A woman who weighs a hundred kilos is fat.	백 킬로가 나가는 여자는 뚱뚱해요.; baeg killoga naganeun yeojaneun ttungttunghaeyo.
A man who weighs fifty kilos is thin.	오십 킬로가 나가는 남자는 말랐어요.; osib killoga naganeun namjaneun mallass-eoyo.
expensive and cheap	비싸요 그리고 싸요; bissayo geuligo ssayo
The car is expensive.	자동차는 비싸요.; jadongchaneun bissayo.
The newspaper is cheap.	신문은 싸요.; sinmun-eun ssayo.

Two languages = two speech centers!

It doesn't matter to our brain when we learn a language. This is because it has different storage areas for different languages. Not all the languages we learn are stored together. Languages we learn as adults have their own storage area. That means the brain processes the new rules in a different place. They aren't stored with the native language. People who grow up bilingual, on the other hand, only use one region of the brain. Multiple studies have come to this conclusion. Neuroscientists examined various test subjects. These subjects spoke two languages fluently. One part of the test group, however, had grown up with both languages. The other part, in contrast, had learned the second language later in life. Researchers could measure brain activity during language tests. This way they could see which areas of the brain functioned during the tests. And they saw that the "late" learners had two speech centers! Researchers had already long suspected that this would be so. People with brain injuries show different symptoms. So, damage to the brain can also lead to speech problems. Those affected can't pronounce or understand words as well. But bilingual accident victims sometimes show unusual symptoms. Their speech problems don't always affect both languages. If only one area of the brain is injured, the other can still function. Then the patients speak one language better than the other. The two different languages are also re-learned at different speeds. This proves that both languages aren't stored in the same place. Since they weren't learned at the same time, they form two centers. It is still unknown how our brain manages multiple languages. But new findings could lead to new learning strategies.