Letters

TopHotLetters to the editor:bilingual

Johnson’s column on losing native languages was outstanding (January 29th). It is true that a multilingual person’s “first language is the one most imbued with emotions.” Our “mother tongue” seems to be stored in both the procedural (more emotionally based) and explicit (or verbal) parts of our brains.
Letters

TopHotLetters to the editor:bilingual

Johnson’s column on losing native languages was outstanding (January 29th). It is true that a multilingual person’s “first language is the one most imbued with emotions.” Our “mother tongue” seems to be stored in both the procedural (more emotionally based) and explicit (or verbal) parts of our brains.