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June 30, 2025 @ 6:44 pm · Filed by Victor Mair under Bilingualism, Language teaching and learning, Multilingualism « previous post | Is being bilingual good for your brain? Perhaps. Learning languages offers other, more concrete benefits Economist (6/27/25) Yes! I won't mince words. At least in my case, multilingualism has been very good for my brain. In my rural Ohio high school, I took Latin and French, which is what were on offer. I enjoyed both of them immensely, but they were almost strictly for reading and writing, so they didn't have much effect on the way my brain worked, at least not that I could discern. In college, I added Italian and German, both with reasonable spoken components, so my brain began to warm up. Then I joined the Peace Corps and went to Nepal for two years. My brain was on fire. As I have described on Language Log (here), my group learned Nepali through total immersion and strictly on an oral-aural basis. After three months of training in Missouri, I c

Language Log >> Bilingualism as a bonus for the brain Language Log Home About Comments policy Bilingualism as a bonus for the brain June 30, 2025 @ 6:44 pm &#183; Filed by Victor Mair under Bilingualism , Language teaching and learning , Multilingualism << Masochism: a bad rap from inception | Engrish prus, part 2 >> --> << previous post | next post >> Is being bilingual good for your brain? Perhaps. Learning languages offers other, more concrete benefits Economist (6/27/25) Yes! I won't mince words. At least in my case, multilingualism has been very good for my brain. In my rural Ohio high sc

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