OTTAWA, ON ― An alarming new study out of the University of Ottawa suggests that years of recommendations to learn a new language in order to stave off cognitive decline may in fact have the opposite effect, as bilingual people tend to forget double the amount of words as they age.
This was too believable to be amusing, and I don’t mean that in a “lol reality is even weirder than satire” way.
Oh that was funny because that is very real. And I’m only 26!