When it comes to healthy brain aging, advice usually includes eating well, staying active and maintaining social connections. New evidence, however, has added an extra task to the list—learning ...

Learning a new language often feels like a practical skill. It helps you travel. It helps you connect with people.

Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found. The work, published in Nature Aging on 10 November, ...

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Can learning another language help you stay younger for longer? Far beyond its cultural and social value, speaking multiple languages may protect both brain and body health, slowing down the ...

Can speaking more than one language slow aging? Research shows multilingual people may have stronger resilience and healthier ...

Research suggests that bilingual people enjoy some cognitive benefits later in life, but it probably requires more than a few Spanish lessons in your 60s. By Dana G. Smith My father decided to start ...

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You may have heard that learning another language is one method for preventing or at least postponing the onset of dementia. Dementia refers to the loss of cognitive abilities, and one of its most ...

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Lauren: Learning a new language seems like a big challenge in the beginning, and that’s because it is. Many of us started our language learning in the classroom, where we’re taught through ...

You may have heard that learning another language is one method for preventing or at least postponing the onset of dementia. Dementia refers to the loss of cognitive abilities, and one of its most ...