Published On: July 18th, 2013|

Time – Jeffrey Kluger

“New studies are showing that a multilingual brain is nimbler, quicker, better able to deal with ambiguities, resolve conflicts and even resist Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia longer. All of this is prompting public schools to implement language immersion programs for kids as young as kindergarteners…In a polyglot world, a largely monoglot nation like the U.S. is at last moving to catch up—and not a moment too soon.”(more)