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68 [kuusikymmentäkahdeksan] iso – pieni

big and small	iso ja pieni
The elephant is big.	Elefantti on iso.
The mouse is small.	Hiiri on pieni.
dark and bright	pimeä ja valoisa
The night is dark.	Yö on pimeä.
The day is bright.	Päivä on valoisa.
old and young	vanha ja nuori
Our grandfather is very old.	Isoisämme on hyvin vanha.
70 years ago he was still young.	70 vuotta sitten hän oli vielä nuori.
beautiful and ugly	kaunis ja ruma
The butterfly is beautiful.	Perhonen on kaunis.
The spider is ugly.	Hämähäkki on ruma.
fat and thin	lihava ja laiha
A woman who weighs a hundred kilos is fat.	Nainen, joka painaa 100 kiloa, on lihava.
A man who weighs fifty kilos is thin.	Mies, joka painaa 50 kiloa, on laiha.
expensive and cheap	kallis ja halpa
The car is expensive.	Auto on kallis.
The newspaper is cheap.	Sanomalehti on halpa.

Two languages = two speech centers!

When we learn a language matters to our brain. 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.