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    Zweisprachig zu sein verzögert das Altern, aber mehrsprachig zu sein ist noch besser – lernen

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    1. -LsDmThC- on

      Is it not likely that speaking multiple languages is correlated with being more educated, and being more educated is correlated with a higher socioeconomic status, and having a higher socioeconomic status is correlated with a healthier and less stressful lifestyle?

    3. LongSausage_ on

      The hardest part for me at first was always converting spanish to English in my head rather than thinking inside the language.

    4. Immortal_Tuttle on

      Ireland should be the best country in the world then. Besides Irish and English every frigging town has its own dialect..

    6. Connect-Idea-1944 on

      Speaking multiple languages really change the way you see the world because you learn how other cultures think, communicate, their expressions and mindset, it opens a whole new perspective and it gets you out of your local bubble.

    7. Skyremmer102 on

      I get the impression that this will have a diminishing return for each new language you know, unless of course, polyglotism is associated with greater education which is already associated with improved ageing outcomes.

      The impression the title gives is that you could potentially delay ageing by many decades if only you learned 20 different languages and the article doesn’t give much impression of a limit.

      The problem for English speakers is that there are fantastically few opportunities to really stretch those linguistic muscles* on a day to day basis. Perhaps English speakers can comfort themselves in the knowledge that English language vocabulary is huge, having absorbed words from so many other languages.

      *I know full well that knowledge of how to speak a language is not stored in muscles.

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