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Monthly Archives: January 2019

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Second-language learning as brain exercise

Aging and the Brain, Brain Fitness, Cognitive impairments, Language Development, Posit ScienceBy Dr. MerzenichJanuary 1, 2019

While I was working in Mexico, my wife Diane spends much of each day in an immersion Spanish class. She began by taking Spanish classes at a local community center. Now that she has the basics, an immersion class in which you have to operate in the second language is pretty effective. After two weeks…

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