{"id":3660,"date":"2025-11-12T13:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/12\/speaking-multiple-languages-can-slow-ageing\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:02:11","slug":"speaking-multiple-languages-can-slow-ageing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/12\/speaking-multiple-languages-can-slow-ageing\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking multiple languages can slow ageing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-11-12 13:02:09<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Learning another language could do more than help you on holiday \u2014 it may actually slow down the ageing process.<BR><br \/>\nA study of 86,000 adults aged 51 to 90 across 27 European countries found that people who spoke three or more languages were far less likely to show signs of &#8220;accelerated ageing&#8221; than those who spoke only one.<BR><br \/>\nResearchers from the Basque Centre on Cognition, Brain and Language compared participants\u2019 biological age \u2014 measured through physical, cognitive, and lifestyle factors such as heart health, activity levels, and sleep quality \u2014 to their actual age.<BR><br \/>\nThey found that multilingual speakers tended to have a smaller gap between the two, suggesting their bodies and brains were ageing more slowly.<BR><br \/>\nJason Rothman and Federico Gallo, from Lancaster University, wrote in an independent analysis of the study: &#8220;Knowing more than one language might not simply enable you to speak with more people or open new cultural horizons \u2014 it is possible that it helps you to age more healthily.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;The hypothesis that the mental gymnastics inherent to juggling multiple languages is one lifestyle factor that fosters healthier cognitive ageing.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-11-12 13:02:09 Learning another language could do more than help you on holiday \u2014 it may actually slow down the ageing process. A study of 86,000 adults aged 51 to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3662,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions\/3662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}