learning can your brain
Learning a foreign language can increase the size of the brain’s language center and the hippocampus — the area of the brain responsible for forming, storing and retrieving memories. (13) In one Swedish study, young military recruits were taught new languages.
Memory activities that engage all levels of brain operation—receiving, remembering and thinking—help to improve the function of the brain. Now, you may not have dancers to correct, but you may be required to give feedback on a presentation, or your friends may ask you what interesting things you saw at the museum.