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Love it or hate it, Spanglish is here to stay — and it's good exercise for your brain
"That's the beauty of Spanglish. It’s not inferior to Spanish; it's just different."
by Vanessa Chesnut
April 5, 2018

The use of Spanglish or other language combinations has been seen by many as a sign of laziness or poor language skills. In recent years, however, scholars have found there is sophisticated brain work behind code-switching, or CS, the linguistic term for switching between two languages in one conversation.

...Arturo E. Hernandez, a professor of psychology at the University of Houston and author of "The Bilingual Brain," has found that what English-Spanish code-switchers do when they speak is similar to what people do when they multitask — for example, driving and talking on a cellphone at the same time.

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