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68 [šešiasdešimt aštuoni] didelis — mažas (Antonimai)

big and small	didelis ir mažas
The elephant is big.	Dramblys yra didelis.
The mouse is small.	Pelė yra maža.
dark and bright	tamsus ir šviesus
The night is dark.	Naktis yra tamsi.
The day is bright.	Diena yra šviesi.
old and young	senas ir jaunas
Our grandfather is very old.	Mūsų senelis yra labai senas.
70 years ago he was still young.	Prieš septyniasdešimt metų jis buvo dar jaunas.
beautiful and ugly	gražus ir bjaurus
The butterfly is beautiful.	Drugelis yra gražus.
The spider is ugly.	Voras yra bjaurus.
fat and thin	storas ir plonas
A woman who weighs a hundred kilos is fat.	Moteris, sverianti 100 (šimtą) kilogramų, yra stora.
A man who weighs fifty kilos is thin.	Vyras, sveriantis 50 (penkiasdešmt) kilogramų, yra plonas.
expensive and cheap	brangus ir pigus
The car is expensive.	Automobilis yra brangus.
The newspaper is cheap.	Laikraštis yra pigus.

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.