We tend to think of brain health as something we protect with crossword puzzles, Wordle, or the occasional sudoku. Those activities certainly keep your mind engaged, but they don’t ask your brain to juggle quite as many moving pieces as speaking another language does. Every conversation requires you to retrieve words, suppress competing ones, switch attention, remember grammar rules, and respond in real time. It’s one of the most demanding workouts you can give your brain.
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