The advantages of learning a foreign language.

 

学习一门外语的优势

 

You stave off Alzheimer's and dementia

 

延缓老年痴呆或者其他痴呆症

 

 

Several studies have been conducted on this topic,and the results are consistent.

 

 

For monolingual adults, the mean age for the first signs of dementia is 71.4.

 

 

For adults who speak two or more languages, the meanage for those first signs is 75.5. Studies considered factors such as education level, income level, gender, and physical health, but the results were consistent.