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Learning a language? Sounding like a native speaker is good, right? What if we said that maintaining native-level perfection in your own language might stall your second language learning? People living abroad often make mistakes in their mother tongue; the same mistakes as second-language learners. Why? The more your brain adapts to accommodate another language, the better you’ll speak the second language, but the less native-like you’ll seem in your own. Join Professor Antonella Sorace to explore how languages affect each other in the brain, and why the key to multilingualism might lie in making more mistakes.
“Not so native now” is part of a series of shows focused around provocative statements and debate - The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas . The cabaret is a compilation of 24 interactive shows where challenging questions are posed and answers are sought. It is curated by the Beltane Public Engagement Network, produced by Fair Pley and compared by Comedienne Susan Morrison. The audience is encourage to speak up and shake the grey matter while debating with some of Scotland’s fiercest intellectuals.
Antonella Sorace is Professor of Developmental Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. She is a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of
Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. She is committed to disseminating the findings of research on bilingualism outside academia. She is the founding director of the information and consultancy centre Bilingualism Matters and was awarded a Beltane Fellowship for Public Engagement.
Full Programme for the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas available below and at http://codi.beltanenetwork.org/codi-2015/the-shows/ (see attached brochure for more details).
Contact Lucy Gibbons : codi@beltanenetwork.org
for any queries or more information.
Date
Fri 7
Sat 8
Sun 9
Mon 10
Title
Soak up the sun and to hell with skin cancer!
Performers
Richard Weller
Hearing loss or deaf gain?
Jemina Napier, Noel
O’Connell
GM bacteria could save your life Clare Taylor
Cervical cancer – you’re history!
Sarah Howie, Heather
Cubie

Tue 11
Sat 15 Not so native now
Sun 16 Alas, poor Darwin..?
Mon 17 Fashion and the selfie
Tue 18
Wed 19
Fri 21
Scotland in six swallies
Wed 12 Stop brushing your teeth!
Thu 13
Women, science is still not for you!
Fri 14 Let’s turn on the smart light
Whose face is it anyway?
The hidden world of functional disorders
Thu 20 Wild, Scottish and free
Skating on thin ice
Susan Morrison
Jan Clarkson
Pam Cameron, Clare
Taylor
Yunlu Wang, Aravind
Venugopalan
Antonella Sorace
Kate Cross, Lewis Dean
Mal Burkinshaw
Felicity Mehendale
Jon Stone
Ian Edwards
Lorna Street, Phil Wookey
Sat 22
Sun 23
Mon 24
Tue 25
Wed 26
Thu 27
Fri 28
Sat 29
Sun 30
Swords into ploughshares
The cocaine conspiracy
The war on drugs is harmful
Hug a thug
Back to the statistical future!
The Great British Brain Off
What if Lance Armstrong had the right idea?
Computers are only for geeks
Edinburgh should ban students
Jolyon Mitchell, Lesley Orr
Karina Banda, Julieth
Serrano and Maria
Fernanda- Torres
Stephen Lawrie
Lesley McAra and Susan
McVie
Nicola Osborne, Helen
Aiton
Alan Gow
Derek Ball
Karen Petrie
Mary Bownes