Learning a language makes your brain grow:
Language learning makes the brain grow, Swedish study suggests
At the Swedish Armed Forces Interpreter Academy, young recruits learn a new language at a very fast pace. By measuring their brains before and after the language training, a group of researchers has had an almost unique opportunity to observe what happens to the brain when we learn a new language in a short period of time.Learning a language allows you to better analyze risks and rewards and set a more desirable course of action for yourself:
Thinking in foreign language makes decisions more rational
...[R]esearchers believe a second language provides a useful cognitive distance from automatic processes, promoting analytical thought and reducing unthinking, emotional reaction.You might think that the decisions you make in a foreign language don't differ from those made in your native language. However...
"It may be intuitive that people would make the same choices regardless of the language they are using, or that the difficulty of using a foreign language would make decisions less systematic. We discovered, however, that the opposite is true: Using a foreign language reduces decision-making biases," wrote Keysar’s team.TL;DR: Using a foreign language reduces decision-making biases, allowing you to make more rational and less reactionary choices.
