Bilingual speaker’s brains are protected

Bilingual brains

If you are bilingual, even better if you are bilingual from childhood, more and more research is supporting the theory that your bilingual abilities will delay or even prevent dementia.  The idea is that when you speak more than one language you need to have the ability to differentiate between two distinct sets of rules and words, and this engages latent part of the brain not found in non bilingual people. Your gray matter is denser and thicker.   Bilingualism has a particularly positive effect on the frontal lobe.  This region is almost by definition the area that is responsible for human intellect.

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