Keep Your Brain Young by Picking Up a New Language

Good news for anyone who's bilingual!

Good news for anyone who’s bilingual…speaking more than one language can keep your brain young. There was already evidence it was true but two recent studies in the journal “Frontiers of Psychology” back that up and say it can even help you avoid things like dementia. Researchers worked with 63 people over the age of 60. Not all of them were fluent in a second language, but they could at least understand a little bit. Each of them had to do a series of cognitive tests and experts discovered that the ones who were fluent tended to do a lot better. They think it’s because people who regularly speak two different languages basically train their brains to be able to shift back and forth and focus on different things quickly.