Sentence examples for to be bilingual from inspiring English sources

Say: "We're raising Georgie to be bilingual".

Ignacio, from Milwaukee, had won an essay contest on "Why I'm Proud to Be Bilingual".

This meant that all German civil servants would henceforth have to be bilingual.

Ernie will be brought up, as far as possible, to be bilingual.

By the late republic it became standard for senators to be bilingual.

Now that the country has become increasingly multicultural, he said, "it's an advantage" to be bilingual.

De Bruin isn't refuting the notion that there are advantages to being bilingual: some studies that she reviewed really did show an edge.

Reprints Related topics Culture and lifestyle Language and linguisticsThis study joins a heap of others suggesting that there are cognitive advantages to being bilingual.

"The best part of our show is we have this experience where we're black girls but then we also have M.F.A.s," Garner says, "so we're used to being bilingual.

And there are cognitive benefits to being bilingual: the discipline needed to separate two or more languages gives the brain a workout, which, as you age, can help stave off dementia.

Bennett concurs by saying, "It is true that there are economic and political advantages to being bilingual, simply meaning that you are able to communicate with audiences that constitute a large portion of the population, that others cannot.