bilingual – Jonathan Frei https://jonathanfrei.com Based on a true story Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:30:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://i0.wp.com/jonathanfrei.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/favicon-160x1601.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 bilingual – Jonathan Frei https://jonathanfrei.com 32 32 76405128 Get another brain by learning another language https://jonathanfrei.com/2012/03/get-another-brain-by-learning-another-language https://jonathanfrei.com/2012/03/get-another-brain-by-learning-another-language#respond Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:30:06 +0000 http://104.131.64.180/2012/03/get-another-brain-by-learning-another-language/ Here’s another reason for me to start learning Spanish again. 

Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age.

The article gives neurological reasons why knowing two languages makes you smarted and keeps your brain healthy. However, the sustained mental effort necessary to learn a second language probably provides the biggest brain boost. 

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