News Oklahoma – Jennifer Graham
“Loading your brain with a foreign language or two appears to make you a better thinker, giving parents another reason to study French or Spanish along with their children each night. Researchers in Russian and Finland used electroencephalography, or EEG, to observe neural activity in 22 young adults who had attended Finland’s famed public schools, where children learn at least two foreign languages. In addition to Finnish, the participants spoke either English, Swedish, German, Latin, Danish or Greek, according to Catharine Paddock of Medical News Today.”(more)