Anusha EPQ

  The first concrete proof of multilingual communication is linked back to Sumerians on clay tablets ( 2600 BC ) and Ancient Egypt with administrative documents in Demotic, Greek, Latin, Coptin and Arabic. We can see that talking in different languages wasn't just reserved for professional texts as there is a lot code switching in Cicero's personal letters ( 100 BC ). In the middle ages we can see the hand-on multilingualism, where people only knew the basics of different languages which helped with trading with different merchants. Only after the period of Renaissance ( 1300 ), society started to highlight rationality increasing grammar and structure for each language. After this period it was about perfecting the languages, both spoken and written, which privilege was reserved for the elite. This shows how before the Renaissance knowing different languages was quite common among working class people however perfecting them was never goal ; the focus was on efficient communic

 In the last month, I tried to research about the multilingual/bilingual brain to come up with a rough title. As this is my first time researching about a topic in so much depth, I got overwhelmed with the amount of information online. This made me struggle with my EPQ and I started to think about other topics I could be interested in.  I started to brainstorm some ideas, such as brain tumours and brain related surgeries, but none of them convinced me. I believe this change of plans was caused by me focusing on adjusting to my other a level subjects and a lack of planning ahead.   This made me realise that I have to improve my organisation skills and have a platform for planning my EPQ.  I wrote down some other ideas I had, and my original topic, and I tried to come up with some rough title for each idea. At the end, I chose to stick with my original topic as I am most interested in this and my change of heart was caused by my poor research skills. To improve my organisation skills for