#multilingualism

#multilingualism

This was my great-grandfather Wilhelm's city, the place he'd left more than a century earlier to migrate to Mexico. I was presenting research on the very phenomenon his migration had set in motion. Wilhelm adapted quickly to San Luis Potosí. He learned Spanish, raising five children in a household that was neither fully German nor fully Mexican. He never taught his children German. The language was gone within a generation. But three generations later, my own children recovered it through deliberate immersion during my research fellowships in Germany,

Most mornings in our house feel like a friendly little language carnival spinning through the kitchen. Before the kids even put on their shoes for school, they've already cycled through three languages joking in Hindi, arguing in Pashto and sprinkling English on top like chocolate chips tossed over their cereal. We don't plan it or rehearse it: it just happens. Pashto is the language of feelings and family business like complaints, alliances, who stole whose pencil, who touched the remote.

Researchers used what's known as the biobehavioral aging clock framework to quantify biobehavioral age gaps (BBAGs), by using artificial intelligence (AI) models trained on thousands of health and behavioral profiles. These models can predict a person's biological age based on physical markers such as hypertension, diabetes, sleep problems, and sensory loss, as well as protective factors including education, cognition, functional ability, and physical activity.

On Saturday, as visitors walk through the display, motion sensors will trigger a piece of city furniture to speak, Wong said. 'We See You,' an independent multimedia installation, reimagines park landscapes as talking, thinking characters. (Submitted by Eunice Wong) "There's kind of a pleasant surprise element," they said. "You don't expect a tree to talk to you." We See You is among the more than 85 works on display by local, Canadian and international artists.

Levine, who is Jewish and is known among New York's politicos for his language skills, makes the case for why New Yorkers from all backgrounds should vote for him.