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Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy

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glum64 · 1789832784 · focus · HN ↗
I am trilingual. All of my languages belong to different language groups; I regularly read and write in both directions. I use all of the three languages every day. I can also bulldoze my way through a text in a fourth language given a dictionary and a reference for its grammar. I can read the alphabet of a fifth language (mostly w/o understanding the sounds that I make, but I am told that I get it right).
I got there 15 years ago. I seem to be unable to learn anything new since.
1. crossroadsguy · 1789835511 · focus · HN ↗
  These researchers probably forgot to factor in the brain's disk size bottleneck. Maybe they will get there.

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