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Of the eight billion people on our planet, a majority use two or more languages in daily life. Advances in technology have provided the tools needed to investigate language acquisition as well as bilingualism and multilingualism. This TED-Ed animated video, based on a lecture by a prominent educator, explains some of the results of this research. Keeping in mind this information, let’s have a conversation about how we learned and use other languages and the benefits we have derived from that. Let’s also talk about our experiences teaching ESL and other disciplines to non-English speakers as well as our current study of another language.