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Speaking two languages may keep the mind sharp longer than knowing only a single language, even in those who can’t read.
                        Scientists reviewed the records of 391 bilingual and 257 monolingual patients diagnosed with dementia between 2006 and 2012 at a clinic in Hyderabad, India. Patients who spoke two languages developed the first signs of dementia an average of 4.5 years later than those who spoke only one language.
1 ^. {6 k2 `  }- @( }9 @4 R2 [Additional results suggest that education alone cannot account for the difference. Bilingual speakers who could not read developed dementia an average of six years later than single-language speakers, the researchers reported last week in the journal Neurology.
6 p! ]  E7 @% a- i7 Y: l5 CKnowing three or more languages provided no extra benefit, the authors said.
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, B5 _' M2 u( D, I( ]( u' Q1 `, yFrom: http://www.washingtonpost.com/na ... 37c6f484_story.html