The benefits of speaking more than one language

An arti­cle in the Wall Street Jour­nal today, Build­ing a More Resilient Brain, reviews the work of Dr. Bia­lystok and her col­leagues on the ben­e­fits that bilin­gual­ism brings to the brain. Anoth­er great exam­ple of neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty. … over time, reg­u­lar­ly speak­ing more than one lan­guage appears to strength­en skills that boost the brain’s so-called cognitive…

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