How Bilingualism Keeps Your Brain Young

Speaking more than one language makes your brain awake and keeps the thinking process all the time.

Researchers have found that people who speak more than one language have twice as much brain damage as monolingual people, before they exhibit symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.

Bilingual people constantly switch from one language to another or suppress one language to speak in the other, their brains may be better prepared to compensate through enhanced brain networks or pathways when Alzheimer's sets in. Brain is also a kind of muscle and if you don't use it, it will slow down. Even in your native language if you use a limited vocabulary you will not forget but suppress the words in the depths of your mind.

Countries where bilingualism is common and settled in education have better quality of living in terms of health and education. And it is demonstrated with the experiments that the sooner one learns other languages, the better assimilate the language. In USA, for instance, parents have realized the importance of Spanish that the vast majority of the population speak.

Speaking Spanish helps students socialize with each other and makes non-Spanish speaking kids understand the Hispanic oriented friends, their culture and create a connection by speaking the same language. Benefits of being a bilingual are advancement of the performance in school, attention, benefit when comes to an old age in terms of protecting your brain to some extent.
"Bilinguals have to switch languages quite often — you may talk to your father in one language and to your mother in another language,” says a researcher at the University of Pompeu Fabra in Spain.

When it so important to speak a second language, when is the best time to start learning?
From the very first time they are born! Yes, the recent researches show that the brain can acquire languages apart from the native one at the early ages. Kids can learn to understand new words in two different languages at an incredibly fast rate. An when they are young they are able to learn the language accent free, it gets harder after 13-15 years old to get the accent of a language. It is also noticed that bilinguals’ cognitive skills are more developed an have a great capability to analyze what’s going on around them.

So from the very beginning of our lives, we start to care our brain and draw our social paths . So you can check one of the Spanish summer camps for kids to make a difference in your kid’s life to a healthy bilingual world citizens.