My First Speech On The Advantages Of Being Bilingual, and Multilingual

 The short term advantage of being bilingual is that it gives you confidence in other countries. Imagine the world is a giant jigsaw puzzle. Each time you learn a few words of another language, you are adding a new country to your list of places where I understand and am understood.

Long term, being bilingual can postpone Alzheimer's for five years. That is wonderful for the individual and their family. With an ageing population in much of the world, this has to make life easier, and save money for families and governments.

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