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giuliomagnificoβ€’about 5 hours ago
13 years if you speak 4 languages, 6 years for two languages:

> The study found that those who spoke two languages had brains that appeared around six years younger than those who spoke only one language. People who spoke three languages had brains that appeared around seven years younger, and for those who spoke four languages, their brains appeared about 13 years younger.

zaikβ€’about 3 hours ago
Link to the actual research?
giuliomagnificoβ€’23 minutes ago
KashifNYβ€’about 5 hours ago
Learning is the brains way of exercising, though I believe you genuinely need to want to learn something which helps in the slowing of ageing part
libertineβ€’about 3 hours ago
One thing that stood out to me some years ago and I found interesting is that depending on the language I'm using my thought patterns kind of change.

Putting in another term, I think differently in different languages.

sidpatilβ€’5 minutes ago
This phenomenon is referred to as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity