Retrospective studies find dementia arriving four to five years later in bilinguals. Prospective ones mostly find nothing.

The idea that thinking in a second language makes you colder and more utilitarian is losing ground.

A bilingual brain keeps both languages live and constantly suppresses one of them.

Your language does not imprison your thinking, but it does decide what you are forced to notice.

Living between languages makes it harder to believe your own way is the default one.

A single stone carrying the same text in hieroglyphs, demotic and Greek reopened three thousand years of Egyptian.

Around seven thousand languages are spoken today, and a large share have very few remaining speakers.

Length and quality of exposure predict adult results better than the age you started.

Bilinguals switch at grammatically predictable points, not randomly.

The Hungarian interpreter who taught herself sixteen languages mostly by reading novels she barely understood.