Northern-Iowan.org – NEHEMIAH NELSON
“Learning another language will do much more than just land you the job you’ve been after (although it may do that, too.) Although there are certainly extrinsic benefits to knowing a second language, the greatest benefits are inherently intrinsic. Cognitive, communicative and cultural benefits are some of the most salient reasons for acquiring another language…bilingualism correlates positively with intelligence, memory, problem solving and visual and spatial abilities.”(more)