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Some of the advantages of bilingualism include better performance at tasks involving brain’s ability to plan and prioritize, better defense against Alzheimer’s (阿尔茨海默氏病)in old age and the obvious the ability to speak a second language. One advantage was not mentioned, though. Many multilinguals report different   ___. or even different worldviews, when they speak their different languages.

It’s an exciting idea that one’s very self could be_____ by the mastery of two or more languages other than in obvious ways such as________to new friends and literature, A former colleague,   ______, reported being ruder in Hebrew than in English. So what is going on here?

This______is not necessarily linked to the vocabulary or grammar of a second language. Significantly, most people are not symmetrically (对称性地)bilingual. Many have learned one language at home from parents, and another later in life, usually at school. They usually have different________in their different languages, and they are not always best in their first language. For example, when________in a foreign language, people are less likely to fall into a cognitive trap (answering a test question with an obvious-seeming but wrong answer) than in their native language. In part this is because working in a second language________the thinking. No wonder people feel different when speaking them. And no wonder they feel relaxed, perhaps more assertive or funnier, in the language where they were________from childhood.

Then，what of those bilinguals raised in two languages? Even for a speaker whose two languages are_______ in ability, there is another big reason that person will feel different in the two languages. This is because there is an important____between bilingualism and biculturalism. Of those bicultural bilinguals, we should be little____that they feel different in their two languages. Experiments in psychology have shown the power of “priming”—small unnoticed factors that can affect behavior in big ways. Asking people to tell a happy story, for example, will put them in a better mood. The choice between two languages is a huge prime. Speaking Spanish rather than English, for a bilingual and bicultural Puerto Rican（波多黎各人）in New York, might _____ feelings of family and home. Switching to English might prime the same person to think of school and work.

So there are two very good reasons, asymmetrical ability and ________, that make people feel different speaking their different languages. We are still left with a third kind of________, though. We often see some languages’ inherent（内在的）properties overlap （重叠）with national stereotypes: French, rigorous; German, logical; English，playful. In this case, is there any convincing line of cause from grammar to personality?