Bilingualism

The American English Academy in Sofia will admit visiting students in the current 2015/2016 academic year.

Bilingual signs and minority languages are in the jurisdiction of European Union member states, a European Commission statement said on Thursday.

It added that the EC is confident that Croatia will honor national and international commitments on the protection of national minorities.

A study from the University of Edinburgh detected a pattern of slower mental decline among bilingual people. The longitudinal study tested 835 people born in 1936 when they were just aged 11 and then retested them in their early 70s from 2008 to 2010.

262 of the participants had learnt a language other than English, of which 195 had learnt the language before they turned 18 eyars.

VUKOVAR - Another bilingual sign, containing Croatian and Serbian text, placed on the building of the Croatian Employment Service in Vukovar has been smashed, and the police are searching for the culprits.