Would you like a bigger brain? It seems that language teachers are the people with all the answers…
brain neonIf you can speak more than one language fluently, then you are probably considered ‘brainy’ by your family and might even have been called ‘big headed’ by your friends. But as it turns out, there is some truth behind those playful descriptions. According to recent research, learning another language causes a measurable increase in the size of your
brain.
A Swedish study discovered that learning a language causes key parts of the brain to grow larger. Using an MRI machine, scientists were able to measure the brain of participants before and after an intense language learning course. Linguists have long known that mastery of another language changes the way you think, but now we have scientific proof that it also changes the very fabric of the brain.
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