The New Daily – Emma Manser
“Linguistics student Anthony Vaughan, 33, of Melbourne wants to learn a thousand languages or more. He is already proficient in French, has picked up Malay, Indonesian and a little Balinese and claims a desire to master every one of Earth’s 7000 human tongues, so addicted is he to the benefits. “In my opinion, you can’t really understand a culture unless you understand the language to a degree. There are just some things that can’t be translated and ways of communicating which lead you to understand how people think,” he said…Bilingualism has significant cognitive benefits that extend far beyond diversifying your CV, many studies have shown. Like muscles, the brain benefits from regular workouts, which the challenge of learning new words, grammar and alphabets provides.”(more)