Alzheimers and Foreigners?

Question

I was curious. If you are move to an english speaking country and have to learn engish to live and communitcate. When you got older and developed alzheimers would you forget how to speak english?

Thanks

Answer 1

Actually, it's just the opposite. People who speak more than one language are much less likely to develop Alzheimer's than people who speak only one language are. In fact, recent studies have shown that bilingualism actually protects the brain from dementia and other neurological disorders. Likewise, other studies have shown that elderly people who study a foreign language have better memory skills than those who don't.

I suppose this has something to do with the "use it or lose it" factor. If you continue learning, you're brain keeps working. If you become passive and lead a sedentary, repetitive life, your brain begins to die long before you give up the ghost.

Just another good reason that Americans should be learning foreign languages starting at an early age and continuing for the rest of their lives, in my opinion!

Answer 2

It is a rebellion. The extra Obama cleans up the messes created by way of the Bush management and his fans, the extra they *****, like indignant infants throwing a tantrum given that they could not get their manner. Fortunately, Obama may not give up caring for them simply given that they're ungrateful. Hopefully at some point they'll develop up and detect what a prefer he has performed for them, however like many spoiled kids who had been born from extra and greed, they'll obviously chew the hand that feeds.