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Am I too old to learn a new language?

[1]         Learning a language as an adult could help delay the onset of dementia, research suggests.
[2]  The brain's neuroplasticity decreases with age, but this shouldn't put off older learners – they do have
[3]  some advantages.

[4]         It's often said that you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Actually, this proverb is, for the most
[5]  part, not true. For much of the history of modern neuroscience, the adult brain was believed to be a
[6]  fixed structure that, once damaged, could not be repaired. But research published since the 1960s has
[7]  challenged this assumption, showing that it is actually a highly dynamic structure, which changes itself

[8]  in response to new experiences, and adapts to injuries – a phenomenon referred to as neuroplasticity.

[9]        Collectively, this body of research suggests that one can never be too old to learn something
[10]  new, but that the older they are, the harder it is for them to do so. This is because neuroplasticity
[11]  generally decreases as a person gets older, meaning the brain becomes less able to change itself in
[12]  response to experiences. Some aspects of language learning become progressively more difficult with
[13]  age, others may get easier. "Older people have larger vocabularies than younger ones, so the chances
[14]  are your vocabulary will be as large as a native," says Albert Costa, a professor of neuroscience who
[15]  studies bilingualism at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. But older learners are less likely to
[16]  have good pronunciation or accent, since the phonemes, or sounds, of a language are picked up
[17]  naturally by children.

[18]        Learning a new language may not always be easy for adults, but there is research to
[19]  suggest that doing so is beneficial for brain health. As we get older, most of us experience an agerelated
[20]  decline in mental functions such as attention and memory, and in some people the acceleration
[21]  of this process leads to the development of Alzheimer's disease or some other form of dementia. A
[22]  number of recent studies suggest that learning a foreign language can slow this inevitable age-related
[23]  cognitive decline.

[24]        "Learning a language later on in life might be more beneficial than learning it earlier because it
[25]  takes more effort," says lead researcher, Thomas Black. Despite the difficulties, Black regards learning
[26]  for ign languag s as fun. “It is lik a puzzl that has to b solved. I'm doing it partly to keep my brain
[27]  active," he says. Besides, learning a foreign language, much like learning to play a musical instrument,
[28]  does indeed appear to be a good way of exercising one's brain, and keeping it healthy, throughout life.

Adapted from: <https://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/sep/13/am-i-too-old-to-learn-a-language>. Accessed on March 19, 2018.

Am I too old to learn a new language?

[1]         Learning a language as an adult could help delay the onset of dementia, research suggests.
[2]  The brain's neuroplasticity decreases with age, but this shouldn't put off older learners – they do have
[3]  some advantages.

[4]         It's often said that you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Actually, this proverb is, for the most
[5]  part, not true. For much of the history of modern neuroscience, the adult brain was believed to be a
[6]  fixed structure that, once damaged, could not be repaired. But research published since the 1960s has
[7]  challenged this assumption, showing that it is actually a highly dynamic structure, which changes itself

[8]  in response to new experiences, and adapts to injuries – a phenomenon referred to as neuroplasticity.

[9]        Collectively, this body of research suggests that one can never be too old to learn something
[10]  new, but that the older they are, the harder it is for them to do so. This is because neuroplasticity
[11]  generally decreases as a person gets older, meaning the brain becomes less able to change itself in
[12]  response to experiences. Some aspects of language learning become progressively more difficult with
[13]  age, others may get easier. "Older people have larger vocabularies than younger ones, so the chances
[14]  are your vocabulary will be as large as a native," says Albert Costa, a professor of neuroscience who
[15]  studies bilingualism at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. But older learners are less likely to
[16]  have good pronunciation or accent, since the phonemes, or sounds, of a language are picked up
[17]  naturally by children.

[18]        Learning a new language may not always be easy for adults, but there is research to
[19]  suggest that doing so is beneficial for brain health. As we get older, most of us experience an agerelated
[20]  decline in mental functions such as attention and memory, and in some people the acceleration
[21]  of this process leads to the development of Alzheimer's disease or some other form of dementia. A
[22]  number of recent studies suggest that learning a foreign language can slow this inevitable age-related
[23]  cognitive decline.

[24]        "Learning a language later on in life might be more beneficial than learning it earlier because it
[25]  takes more effort," says lead researcher, Thomas Black. Despite the difficulties, Black regards learning
[26]  for ign languag s as fun. “It is lik a puzzl that has to b solved. I'm doing it partly to keep my brain
[27]  active," he says. Besides, learning a foreign language, much like learning to play a musical instrument,
[28]  does indeed appear to be a good way of exercising one's brain, and keeping it healthy, throughout life.

Adapted from: <https://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/sep/13/am-i-too-old-to-learn-a-language>. Accessed on March 19, 2018.

Am I too old to learn a new language?

[1]         Learning a language as an adult could help delay the onset of dementia, research suggests.
[2]  The brain's neuroplasticity decreases with age, but this shouldn't put off older learners – they do have
[3]  some advantages.

[4]         It's often said that you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Actually, this proverb is, for the most
[5]  part, not true. For much of the history of modern neuroscience, the adult brain was believed to be a
[6]  fixed structure that, once damaged, could not be repaired. But research published since the 1960s has
[7]  challenged this assumption, showing that it is actually a highly dynamic structure, which changes itself

[8]  in response to new experiences, and adapts to injuries – a phenomenon referred to as neuroplasticity.

[9]        Collectively, this body of research suggests that one can never be too old to learn something
[10]  new, but that the older they are, the harder it is for them to do so. This is because neuroplasticity
[11]  generally decreases as a person gets older, meaning the brain becomes less able to change itself in
[12]  response to experiences. Some aspects of language learning become progressively more difficult with
[13]  age, others may get easier. "Older people have larger vocabularies than younger ones, so the chances
[14]  are your vocabulary will be as large as a native," says Albert Costa, a professor of neuroscience who
[15]  studies bilingualism at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. But older learners are less likely to
[16]  have good pronunciation or accent, since the phonemes, or sounds, of a language are picked up
[17]  naturally by children.

[18]        Learning a new language may not always be easy for adults, but there is research to
[19]  suggest that doing so is beneficial for brain health. As we get older, most of us experience an agerelated
[20]  decline in mental functions such as attention and memory, and in some people the acceleration
[21]  of this process leads to the development of Alzheimer's disease or some other form of dementia. A
[22]  number of recent studies suggest that learning a foreign language can slow this inevitable age-related
[23]  cognitive decline.

[24]        "Learning a language later on in life might be more beneficial than learning it earlier because it
[25]  takes more effort," says lead researcher, Thomas Black. Despite the difficulties, Black regards learning
[26]  for ign languag s as fun. “It is lik a puzzl that has to b solved. I'm doing it partly to keep my brain
[27]  active," he says. Besides, learning a foreign language, much like learning to play a musical instrument,
[28]  does indeed appear to be a good way of exercising one's brain, and keeping it healthy, throughout life.

Adapted from: <https://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/sep/13/am-i-too-old-to-learn-a-language>. Accessed on March 19, 2018.

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Over-stretching? Yoga
  Half a century after the Beatles meditated in Rishikesh, in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas, a new wave of spirituality tourists have arrived for this week’s International Yoga Festival. 
  Some 300 million people now practise yoga around the world, according to the International Yoga Federation. Since it became popular in the West in the 1980s it has moved beyond mere activity; in popular language use, it has become a “lifestyle” – on which Americans spent $16 billion in 2016. The yoga market is growing by 7% a year, while novelty yoga proliferates: hot yoga, beer yoga, naked yoga, goat yoga. 
  Some worry the practice is losing its spirituality and that the Instagram generation has made it about posing not poses. Others think it fills a spiritual vacuum in the irreligious West, where navel-gazing is not a tricky yoga move. Devotees defend its health benefits and positive messages of love, compassion and serenity. A noble position to take. 
(https://espresso.economist.com, 03.03.2018. Adaptado.)

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Over-stretching? Yoga
  Half a century after the Beatles meditated in Rishikesh, in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas, a new wave of spirituality tourists have arrived for this week’s International Yoga Festival. 
  Some 300 million people now practise yoga around the world, according to the International Yoga Federation. Since it became popular in the West in the 1980s it has moved beyond mere activity; in popular language use, it has become a “lifestyle” – on which Americans spent $16 billion in 2016. The yoga market is growing by 7% a year, while novelty yoga proliferates: hot yoga, beer yoga, naked yoga, goat yoga. 
  Some worry the practice is losing its spirituality and that the Instagram generation has made it about posing not poses. Others think it fills a spiritual vacuum in the irreligious West, where navel-gazing is not a tricky yoga move. Devotees defend its health benefits and positive messages of love, compassion and serenity. A noble position to take. 
(https://espresso.economist.com, 03.03.2018. Adaptado.)

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Over-stretching? Yoga
  Half a century after the Beatles meditated in Rishikesh, in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas, a new wave of spirituality tourists have arrived for this week’s International Yoga Festival. 
  Some 300 million people now practise yoga around the world, according to the International Yoga Federation. Since it became popular in the West in the 1980s it has moved beyond mere activity; in popular language use, it has become a “lifestyle” – on which Americans spent $16 billion in 2016. The yoga market is growing by 7% a year, while novelty yoga proliferates: hot yoga, beer yoga, naked yoga, goat yoga. 
  Some worry the practice is losing its spirituality and that the Instagram generation has made it about posing not poses. Others think it fills a spiritual vacuum in the irreligious West, where navel-gazing is not a tricky yoga move. Devotees defend its health benefits and positive messages of love, compassion and serenity. A noble position to take. 
(https://espresso.economist.com, 03.03.2018. Adaptado.)