Learning a new language offers more than just the ability to communicate with others. It enhances cognitive abilities and opens up new cultural experiences. Additionally, bilingual individuals ...

But many speakers of foreign languages extolled the benefits. Four native English speakers tell the BBC how making the effort to learn a second language is important - and how it changed their life.

What’s more, as well as offering cognitive improvements, there are other benefits that learning ... Studies have suggested that learning a second language could delay the risk of dementia ...

If you speak a second (or third or fourth ... to your current employer or a potential employer. Benefits of speaking more than one language have been demonstrated in multiple ways.

In other words, whether learning through alphabetic languages (Spanish ... we now also have evidence that instructional time invested in developing important decoding sub-skills in an immersion ...