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You've given me a little neuroscience.

I know you're a science girly.

I am.

So I'm going to give you a little neuroscience in return.

It is my love language.

I want to hear it.

Okay.

So it's true that I want to be able to talk to my husband's family and their primary language.

But as I get older, I've also started thinking a lot more about my health, gut health, joint health, and especially brain health.

And can I tell you, I wasn't at all surprised that the challenge of learning a new language is good for your brain, but I was surprised that once you get fluent, those benefits stick.

That's Fiorica Marian.

She's a psycholinguist and cognitive scientist who teaches at Northwestern University.

She also wrote a book called The Power of Language.