Brain and languages.

Brain and Languages.

By the sense of hearing, is how we learn to speak and communicate. The audible speech perception is produced in the rotation Heschl in the right and left hemispheres. Understanding how the brain works can help us to learn another language more easily.
Language occupies its own section of the brain. Actually, there are two main areas; Wernicke's area allows us to understand words spoken to us and Broca's area allows us to speak to others.
This information is transferred to Wernicke's area which is involved in the comprehension of spoken language and the inferior parietal lobe, that recognize the phonemic segmentation and played it along with the prefrontal cortex, interpret those sounds.
We can call the Wernicke´s área with another names: knowledge area, general interpretative area, tertiary association area. It is important for the understanding of words.
The Broca´s area is connected to Wernicke´s area. Its function is to allow the realization of the motors to the expression patterns of the words. It is responsible for the formation of words. Also connects to the supplementary motor area, which is related to the initiation of speech.
Interestingly, for people who learn a second language later in life, Wernicke's area doesn't show a separation of activity based on the language being listened to, whereas Broca's area does.
The brain center for understanding and comprehension of language isn't compartmentalized
Oral practice is definitely too important when you start learning a language. When we learn a new language, the size of our brain is increased.
Recent investigations have shown that bilingual or multilingual people develop Alzheimer's at a later age.

This is how our brain looks when we learn a new language:

We need to help our brains develop the new compartment for our new language. Practice really does make difference.
When we are learning a new language, if we are just sitting in the classrom learning vocabulary and grammar, our brain isn't going to be able to distinguish those facts as language.
The point is, even if you can’t get into the situations in the real world, imagining them, and then can also get you a long way.

Differences in the inferior frontal gyrus in a monolingual brain (red) and in a bilingual brain (blue).
Learning Styles.

Learning styles are simply different approaches or ways of learning and teaching. Learning style can also be described as a set of factors, behaviors, and attitudes that facilitate learning for an individual in a given situation. Every single person is different, so we can´t learn with the same method or with the same style.
There´s four principal styles of learning: Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic and Tactile.
Visual Style:
These learners need to see the teacher's body language and facial expression to fully understand the content of a lesson. They learn through seeing, by observation, they can recall what they have seen, like to read, use written notes and they watching TV/video to learn.

Auditory Style:
They learn through listening, they learn best through verbal lectures, discussions. They prefer listening and taking notes, can recall what they have heard, can follow oral directions, repeat words aloud for memorizartion and use oral language effectively.

Kinesthetic Style:
They learn through experience and physical activity, learn from teaching others what they know. They learn playing games, mime, drama.

Tactile Style:
They learn through moving, doing and touching and manipulating objects. Basically, they learn creating maps, building models, art projects, using manipulatives, drawing, designing things.

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