Bilingual Brainpower: What Research Says About Language and Aging, By Cynthia Abinader, Psy.D.

As a bilingual Spanish-English speaker, I had always wondered whether knowing two languages had any long-term benefits. It turns out I wasn’t alone in asking that question; for the past two decades, scientists have been studying how bilingualism shapes the brain, and the findings are compelling. One of the most consistent results is that bilingual […]