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If I'm over 25, is it still too late for me to "learn" French or can I just watch French sitcoms for like a year and be up-to-speed? (lemmy.world)

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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Bilingual people suffer less from dementias.

Pretty sure that's people who were bilingual their whole lives, not people who learned another language later in life. It's about how the brain deals with thinking in both languages.

Once you're older it's the same benefit as sudoku, which is still something

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