It has to do with your brain. Once you learn a language it’s like riding a bike, you never forget it. You may not use it all the time but it is still etched in your mind. With it being etched in your mind your brain always is working to remember it. People who speak more than one language exercise a brain network called the executive control system more. The executive control system involves parts of the prefrontal cortex and other brain areas, and is the basis of our ability to think in complex ways.So people that are bilingual have to constantly exercise there brain system to prevent their two languages from interfering with one another. Their brain must sort through options for each word, switch back and forth between the two languages, and keep everything understandable. All this work seems to provide bilingual individuals a cognitive benefit which is the ability to cope when things are tough this allows the brain to better Although being bilingual does not prevent Alzheimer’s from occurring it can limit the effects and increase the age in which you get
It has to do with your brain. Once you learn a language it’s like riding a bike, you never forget it. You may not use it all the time but it is still etched in your mind. With it being etched in your mind your brain always is working to remember it. People who speak more than one language exercise a brain network called the executive control system more. The executive control system involves parts of the prefrontal cortex and other brain areas, and is the basis of our ability to think in complex ways.So people that are bilingual have to constantly exercise there brain system to prevent their two languages from interfering with one another. Their brain must sort through options for each word, switch back and forth between the two languages, and keep everything understandable. All this work seems to provide bilingual individuals a cognitive benefit which is the ability to cope when things are tough this allows the brain to better Although being bilingual does not prevent Alzheimer’s from occurring it can limit the effects and increase the age in which you get