Bilingualism offers more than just the ability to navigate multiple languages—it also has a profound impact on brain health. Research has increasingly shown that speaking more than one language can ...

Bilingualism has long been known to have cognitive benefits for older adults. Research shows it helping delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease by up to five years compared to monolingual adults. This ...

New research findings show that bilingual people are great at saving brain power, that is. To do a task, the brain recruits different networks, or the highways on which different types of information ...

Bilingualism is more common than ever before. According to Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley (EB), today more of the world’s population is bilingual or multilingual than monolingual. Anyone can benefit from ...

Noah Sweeney started learning French the moment he was signed up for hockey and baseball in Quebec City as a five-year-old anglophone. Nearly 18 years later, he is still learning — having continued ...

A new study found that bilingualism- especially from a younger age- is linked to more efficient brain connectivity. The study improves our understanding of how bilingualism influences the brain. The ...

Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to build connections within itself, adapting to the surrounding environment. The brain is most plastic in childhood, forming new pathways in reaction to stimuli ...

It can come as a surprise to many people in the U.K. and U.S. that speaking more than one language is the norm rather than the exception. In prehistoric times, most people belonged to small linguistic ...

TOKYO—I speak decent Spanish, picked up working several decades ago as a news and sports reporter in Spain, Mexico and ...