Wort by Wort: The Cognitive Power of Learning a Second Language

In midlife, learning another language rewires your brain, builds cognitive resilience...and might just change the way you age.

I’m not going to lie, it hasn’t been easy. Learning a new language, I mean.

My last serious attempt was decades ago. High school French with Madame Gibson. In class, I was Léon. But I was barely attentive. To this day, my most complete French sentence remains: “Je parle un peu le Français.” Which, appropriately, means “I only speak a little French.”

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