Bilingualism matters researchers Dr Thomas Bak and Professor Antonella Sorace were joined by stand up comic Susan Morrison to present a sell-out show at this year’s Edinburgh International Science Festival.
The audience gathered in the Summerhall anatomy theatre to dissect their language general knowledge – from 6 month babies to the onset of dementia, via Eurovision and Esperanto. As well as a fiendishly difficult quiz, the evening including research summaries from Dr Bak and Professor Sorace, and wide-ranging audience Q & A (including computer languages, the Scottish education system, children who code switch or mix languages in a sentence, and film subtitles).
Read more about why Dr Bak thinks this type of public engagement event is so important: Science festival interview with Thomas Bak
