The study found no evidence that the protective effect of multilingualism depended on the language learned. Photograph: iStock
Learning to speak one or more new languages can slow biological ageing and protect the brain against age-related cognitive decline.
So says new research reported in Nature Ageing, by scientists at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), the Basque Center On Cognition, Brain and Language in San Sebastian and the Latin American Brain Health Institute in Santiago, Chile.
“Our results provide strong evidence that multilingualism functions as a protective factor for healthy agei
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