{"id":225007,"date":"2025-11-13T00:04:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/want-a-younger-brain-learn-another-language"},"modified":"2025-11-13T00:04:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:04:54","slug":"want-a-younger-brain-learn-another-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/want-a-younger-brain-learn-another-language","title":{"rendered":"Want a younger brain? Learn another language"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found.<\/p>\n

The work, published in Nature<\/i> Aging<\/i> on 10 November1, suggests that people who are multilingual are half as likely to show signs of accelerated biological ageing as are those who speak just one language.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to address one of the most persistent gaps in ageing research, which is if multilingualism can actually delay ageing,\u201d says study co-author Agust\u00edn Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez, a neuroscientist at the Adolfo Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez University in Santiago, Chile. Previous research in this area has suggested that speaking multiple languages can improve cognitive functions such memory and attention2, which boosts brain health as we get older. But many of these studies rely on small sample sizes and use unreliable methods of measuring ageing, which leads to results that are inconsistent and not generalizable.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe effects of multilingualism on ageing have always been controversial, but I don\u2019t think there has been a study of this scale before, which seems to demonstrate them quite decisively,\u201d says Christos Pliatsikas, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Reading, UK. The paper\u2019s results could \u201cbring a step change to the field\u201d, he adds.<\/p>\n

They might also \u201cencourage people to go out and try to learn a second language, or keep that second language active\u201d, says Susan Teubner-Rhodes, a cognitive psychologist at Auburn University in Alabama.<\/p>\n

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