Health Benefits of Being Multilingual

Nusrat Shikhbabayev

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Health Benefits of Being Multilingual

Nusrat Shikhbabayev

Published in International Journal of Education, Culture and Society (Volume 1, Issue 1)

Received: 6 May 2016 Accepted: 24 May 2016 Published: 17 June 2016

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Abstract

Some facts from different reliable scientific sources show that learning a new language can lead to some health benefits which can fight off aging of the brain and keep our brain young for a longer time, as well as delay the onset of dementia or ward off Alzheimer’s disease that may occur in future.

Published in	International Journal of Education, Culture and Society (Volume 1, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijecs.20160101.11
Page(s)	1-4
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2016. Published by Science Publishing Group

Keywords

Languages, Bilingual, Multilingual, Polyglot, Brain

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Nusrat Shikhbabayev

Department of Translation and Interpretation, Qafqaz University, Khirdalan, Azerbaijan

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