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[rs7k]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&e=19&u=/nm/20040614/hl_nm/health_bilingual_dc_1

Sweet shit, French/English here.

 

[Uncle Dukey]

Guess that rules me out. Wasn't raised in a bilingual environement.

 

[automagnus]

I speak three so I guess that makes me super human.
Russian/Spanish/English

 

[Naked Snake]

Bullshit! My dad speaks 3 languages and he's senile.

 

[MrPing1000]

I was awful at languages i could never grasp french or spanish.


Who am i? I just pee'd my pants. Hello? I don't know where i live. I'm going to Disney Land!

 

[Tenguman]

i took ~4 years of Spanish and I know as much now as I did before I took the class

 

[Bowser]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&e=19&u=/nm/20040614/hl_nm/health_bilingual_dc_1

Sweet shit, French/English here.

Same here.

 

[aerodynamik]

Pfff, three and a half (lol, say three and a quarter) and I've barely studied any. I come from a bilingual region, plus english which is a must, plus some german. I'll start french whenever I can, and I'm still way behind where I'd like to be. It's relatively common if you live in Europe and move around just a little bit.

But the article doesn't refer to "learning" languages, but true bilingualism, which is harder to find/achieve. I heard a long time ago that it helps keeping your mind sharp and improves general abstraction, but I can't remember the details. Of course it doesn't hurt, but after all it's another boring test that finds its way to the press.

 

[Sagitario]

w00t!

Spanish & English...

 

[kablooey]

The tests of people who grew up speaking English and either Tamil or French suggested that having to juggle two languages keeps the brain elastic and may help prevent some of the mental slowing caused by age, the researchers said.

Hahaha, you gotta be kidding me! Those are the two other languages I can speak, sort of (Tamil and French). I won't be going senile anytime soon then.