Learning a foreign language helps the brain work better

A study shows that regular use of two (or more) languages ​​will bring positive effects in improving brain activity as well as health.

Help focus better

Albert Costa of Pompeu Fabrain University in Bacelona, ​​Spain, says the brain's executive function allows people to maintain their goals in mind, take actions to achieve that goal and eliminate pine believe to dilute memory.

The question is: For bilingual people, is the brain management system better? Costa confirmed that the studies showed positive supplemental results, which are evident in children and the elderly.

Experimental participants conducting tests require many functions such as driving (simulating on the computer) and listening to the phone. As a result, everyone is poorly handled, but those who use two languages ​​are better off.

Regular use of two languages ​​for a long time helps achieve better cognitive performance and benefits, even if you want to learn more languages ​​at an advanced age.

However, the authors also said that the use of two languages ​​also encountered difficulties such as it took us two millionths of a second to correctly define the lexical meaning of the language. For bilingual children, there is often less vocabulary in each language than children with only one language. ' However, if they are combined, their vocabulary is much more, ' said Bialystock of York University in Toronto.

According to Bialystock , improving operating functions is more important than small differences in vocabulary and a few millionths of a second spent determining exactly what it means.

Good for health

A recent study by Bialystock also found that using multiple languages ​​also has positive health effects in Alzheimer's patients.

Bialystock said ' We have demonstrated at least two different studies among hundreds of people, bilingual people have better Alzheimer's resistance. The symptoms of the disease also occur four years later than those who only use one language. When Alzheimer's disease begins to destroy brain regions, bilingual people can still control the body. Similar results also occur for people who often play crossword puzzles . '