Learning another language gives your brain a boost

There has been plenty of publicity recently about the benefits of learning another language as you get older (ahem!!) particularly regarding keeping your brain agile and thereby possibly staving off dementia or Alzheimer's disease. Given how much my brain is hurting right now after my first Japanese language lesson I'm not sure I agree with all that research... and I got homework :(

Sayonara blippers, konbanwa!


You live a new life for every language you speak. If you know only one language, you live only once. 
Czech proverb