being bilingual

Our 'natural state' is to be at least bilingual:

we are by nature multilingual | jayjaydoubleyoudoubleyou.blogspot

Most people in the world are bilingual:

What is the percentage of bilingual people in the world? | researchgate.net

As a piece on the BBC asks:

Most people in the world speak more than one language, suggesting the human brain evolved to work in multiple tongues. If so, asks Gaia Vince, are those of us who speak only one language missing out?

The amazing benefits of being bilingual | bbc.com

And which the Washington Post asks:

Half of the world is bilingual. What’s our problem? | washingtonpost.com

Here's a programme from BBC Radio on being bilingual:

Axel Kacoutié explores living between languages and finding yourself in the gaps

A Mother Tongue | bbc.co.uk

Here's the transcript:

A MOTHER TONGUEBY AXEL KACOUTIÉ

This is the Twitter feed on the programme:

https://twitter.com/AxelKacoutie/status/1460355488969854987

Axel is originally from the Ivory Coast in West Africa - and speaks French and English as 'a mother tongue':

axelkacoutie.com

And here he is with his regular Today in Focus podcast:

Axel Kacoutié | The Guardian

Finally, it really is a good thing to become 'bilingual':

34 unobvious benefits of learning a second language - Jay Doubleyou

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