DNA India – Nishtha Balagopal 
Ni Hao, konnichiwa, Bonjour or Hola… Learning a foreign language is gaining momentum in India. In case you are wondering what is the need to learn a foreign language, Swedish researchers from Lund University have the answer. Young recruits at the Swedish Armed Forces Interpreter Academy learned a new language at a very fast pace. By measuring their brains before and after the language training, the researchers had the opportunity to observe what happens to the brain when we learn a new language in a short period of time. The MRI scans of the recruits showed that the size of the brain had increased.(more)