CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THIS PROGRAM? a Which of the following statements about bilingualism do you think are true? More than half the world's children grow up speaking two or more languages. Being bilingual strengthens the brain. Learning more than one language at a time is confusing to children. Children who are exposed to two languages fall behind monolingual children at school. For bilinguals, the brain keeps the two languages separate. Bilingual speakers' brains perform mental exercises all the time. When bilingual speakers get older, they lose their mental abilities faster than people who speak only one language.