PBS – Staff Writer 
There are so many advantages to learning a language. Being bilingual improves your memory. And several studies have suggested that it may even stave off Alzheimer’s and dementia. But, for me, most incredible thing was being all of a sudden privy to a parallel world I hadn’t even known existed, a world in which there was a word for a person who got cold easily, where a man’s shirt was feminine, but a woman’s shirt was masculine, where there wasn’t just one past tense, but two.(more)