S E406: Dr. Kami Anderson: "¿Habla español?"

This Is Karen Hunter

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Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 4 December 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Dr. Kami Anderson, founder of Bilingual Brown Babies talks about the benefits of learning a second language as an adult, what it take to learn and why we shouldn't be too hard on ourselves when we're just starting out. This is the first in a series of Spanish lessons she will be teaching to Karen's audience. #Bilingual #Spanish #KamiAnderson

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. Let me welcome. She's the founder and executive director of bilingual brown babies
0:16.5	Dr. Camy Anderson. Welcome to the Karen Hunter show. Thank you so much for
0:21.6	having me. I'm glad to be here.
0:23.0	Look at how she was bouncing in when Black was playing. I was like, okay, she can play with us.
0:27.0	She can play with us.
0:28.0	All right, before we get into the actual lesson of the day, and I would love for you to come in every
0:33.2	Friday and give us just one lesson a segment so that I think it's important that we
0:38.7	expand our language abilities not just because I think we need to have a place to go if all
0:45.9	hell breaks who's here and it might be a Spanish-speaking country like Cuba I don't know
0:50.2	but also as we get older our brains just like our bodies, our muscles get more rigid and
0:57.9	learning a new language fires synapses and I think it wake awakens different things
1:02.3	I need none of us to have Alzheimer's.
1:04.0	I need none of us to have any kind of, you know, I need our brains to stay active.
1:07.5	So I think learning a new language is also good in that area.
1:11.0	Am I correct in thinking that, Dr. Cammy?
1:13.2	Actually, yeah, one of the things that when I was actually studying and getting my PhD I
1:18.5	Howard, I had a simultaneous interpretation class and the teacher was like, if stay in this class it'll let's see your chances of dementia.
1:26.0	I'm like, okay, whatever, okay, whatever you say and he was like no seriously, he's like the ways in which you have to train your brain to work in language. It forces you to have to work those things that start to die down and get a little bit slower as the older we get and it really does like there is actually research out there that
1:44.3	says that those that actually practice simultaneous interpretation are less likely to
1:48.6	develop dementia and Alzheimer's because of the ways that they have to use their
1:51.4	brain. I just intuitively knew that. Okay.
1:56.0	So how I was teaching was like, all right, we need to know numbers, days of the week, you know I was just going down but you're an actual
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