How to pronounce “bilin” in English

I won a two-year fellowship from Princeton, a Princeton in Asia fellowship to go teach in Japan at a school called International Christian University, whichhad bilingual, lots of English language classes.That's where I'm at my wonderful wife, Kuniko, who's in the audience, and who changed my life again.

Now, if you're looking at the slide, you'll see that I've stuck a pun in the slide.It's a bilingual French, English pun involving the-- of course, the French word for bread looks like pain.Now, some people find puns to be painful.

OK. It's not-- no.So if you become bilingual before adolescence, and you learn swearing in two or more languages before you're bollocks have dropped properly,

There's a lot more information on our web site here.It's bilingual. And you can download some information.Thank you much for your time today.

And then to be selected for Chanel, you have an unusual profile.You're bilingual. You've had to work .But that is daunting leadership ..

Consecutive takes a lot, a lot, of practice.So to all the bilingual volunteers, thank you for feeling some of the pain that I felt when I was interpreting for the first time.How many of you know how many words there are in English?

You can see his magnificent architect's penmanship on display in one of the hundreds of Linear B inscriptions he copied by hand.computer or a single bilingual inscription that, like the Rosetta Stone, would give Linear B on one side and a known language in a known script on the other.

Those of you who don't speak Spanish, looking at that word, you probably think that it means intoxicated, right?So there was a bilingual nurse in a Florida Hospital in the year 1980.And this bilingual nurse heard the patient came in and his family said he was intoxicado.

So there was a bilingual nurse in a Florida Hospital in the year 1980.And this bilingual nurse heard the patient came in and his family said he was intoxicado.So, how did he render that word into English?

to. The first language I spoke when I entered Kindergarten was Spanish.Now I’m bilingual but I prefer English over Spanish and I’ll only speak Spanish if I have to.And I want my children, if I ever have children, I want my children to speak Spanish but I know they’re all gonna speak English and they’ll probably have a name like Brittany

Now this could be, of course, in a bilingual setting.Is anyone in the room bilingual or multilingual, more than one language?From birth? OK. So you may hear more than one language.

Because my grandparents raised me, I speak Mandarin.And I was able to work a bilingual hotline.And the women who called the hotline, yes, they were calling in moments of crisis, because of the abuse that they were enduring.

And I think that's what sets many Latin American cultures apart.And I can relate to her being bilingual, although right now, she's .

And I think that's what sets many Latin American cultures apart.And I like her being bilingual.

BILL McGOWAN: Thank you.I had no idea we specialized in bilingual wedding toasts.That's actually even a surprise to me.

got to be rich enough that it is now offering three years ofMandarin um the theory being bilingual is cool trilingual Spanish ChineseEnglish wow I mean you got an amazing person there and they're not again they're not done so adding incrementally

So a lot of people think I speak both languages, I should be able to handle it.So I get there-- and anyone here bilingual?OK. So I get there, and I hear terms like-- I'll give you a couple examples.

A lot of different reason.They're not raised in bilingual environments.Some of them are just clear-- they're clearly to systems and to patterns and pattern recognition.

usually very low-- around 20% for most exams for translators and interpreters.So of 8 out of 10 bilingual individuals who are failing these tests.That goes to show that it takes more than just fluency in two languages to be a translator.

Not only creating every single nail-- I mean, it's hard to imagine we couldn't just go buy a box of nails.And many of them will have bilingual websites, and websites in some of those languages.

English speaking adults and turning them into bilinguals who can work as diplomats or spies, people who can blend in to whatever the native population is.

Award winning artist, bilingual TEDx speaker, entrepreneur, and a San Francisco art commissioner who is named the Fast Company's most creative people in business

I mean, he's bilingual.

And the older you get, the more difficult it is to have a native-like variety wherever you're based.So my suggestion was that he was an early bilingual.So if English was learned as a second language, that it was between the ages of 5 and 12.

OK. It's not-- no.We also know from looking at people who were bilingual exactly when that emotive coding goes on in the brain.

And we're one of the first states to have bilingual education.

here. And it's bilingual.

And Anwar went to a school in Yemen that was bilingual.

entitled "The Word Love" that was made into a bilingual film-- English and Bengali-- called "Amar Ma," and actually won some awards at Cannes.

So, a lot of people who are working in this field have this question.Well, if I'm bilingual, can I become a translator?We've all been asked that, right?

Michael Erard: Research shows that people who are bilingual or multilingual, on a community basis or family basis, do acquire other languages easier.

Karen Leibowitz: So Anthony is functionally the only bilingual person in the group.

Her love for food led her to create "My Dominican Kitchen," a bilingual blog sharing traditional Dominican recipes and Latin-inspired meals for home cooks.

And I was asked if I thought this person was an immigrant, which I thought was interesting.So I tend to look at it in terms of whether they're a bilingual and if that was an early or late bilingual.So we can tell things about the way that you speak.

the co-founders they were all Engineers um the engineering culture they live in is bilingual Mandarin and English so

So this is the case of a particular individual who is a bilingual French Hebrew speaker, 75 years old,

And I think that's what sets many Latin American cultures apart.Actually, she's studying in a bilingual school, which I kind of like that because I'm bilingual.

Eventually, some of them become bilingual, but that's not my fault, my problem.

So yeah. But I really wanted to-- I'm bilingual.

information about speech patterns to do with our native languages.Now this could be, of course, in a bilingual setting.Is anyone in the room bilingual or multilingual, more than one language?

And now I know that there's a lot of English as a second language classes and bilingual education.

question but I noticed all your screenshots and everything were in English I mean do they do everything bilingually is there an assumption that

So I actually grew up in Tijuana.But it's very much a border life, very much bilingual.I grew up watching American television.

I think the language has been something that's been very important for me.Because even though I grew up in a border city, even if I'm bilingual, writing in Spanish to me is much more natural.I mean, I've never tried writing in English, really.

And so you needed a critical mass of students who spoke a particular language in order to be able to have a bilingual program.

So these communities, immigrant communities that worked really hard to create bilingual programs, are suddenly being dismantled to send students who

And so there were a lot of things that had to be worked out around that to preserve bilingual programs.

OK. So I get there, and I hear terms like-- I'll give you a couple examples.OK, so a quick quiz-- All of you who have said you're bilingual, I'm going to give you a term.And you say it in your other language, OK?

Have you heard this story.And usually the way that's done, because not everybody can afford to employ interpreters or bilingual people, is they simply sign up for a service,