The Nuance

Why Learning a Foreign Language Is the Ultimate Brain Workout

It can also enrich your view of the world

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
7 min readJan 7, 2021

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Illustration: Kieran Blakey

For a groundbreaking 2010 study, a team of Canadian researchers explored the associations between bilingualism and Alzheimer’s disease.

At that time, it was known that socially and physically active older adults tended to…

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Markham Heid
Elemental

I’m a frequent contributor at TIME, the New York Times, and other media orgs. I write mostly about health and science. I like long walks and the Grateful Dead.