
Speaking multiple languages seems to enhance our brains in multiple ways
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Parlez-vousfrançais? Learning another language can stop Alzheimer's and other types of dementia. And it's never too late to start.
That's how bilingualism was First link Dementia postponed in 2007 Ellen Bieristok York University in Toronto and her colleagues were referred to a memory clinic to examine records of people diagnosed with dementia. Of the 184 people in the analysis, symptoms appeared in people who were more bilingual than their monolingual peers four years later.
Source: www.newscientist.com