…or: what the ability to quickly name pictures has got to do with speaking two languages. When learning a foreign language at school, we are often told that we should go to the country where that language is spoken. Many German pupils are sent to Great Britain, because, as their...
…how to cook your favourite meal, what the name of your best friend is, or what bus you have to take to get home. In our everyday lives, we take memory and language for granted. Our everyday communication has become highly automatised and also routinised. We can think about our...
A life without speech? When I was a teenager I heard the story of a close friend of mine, whose uncle had lost the ability to speak after he had a stroke. Uncle Peter used to be a very funny and talkative guy until the day the stroke occurred. From...
