Recently I watched a documentary on Discovery Channel about the brain. I learned that because the brain has plasticity, we can indeed continue to learn many things as we get older. The more we use our brains, the sharper we become. What may cause us to become senile as we get older is not using our brains actively.
This encouraged me that my language skills can be improved – even though I have reached my fiftieth birthday. On the show I mentioned above, there was a 99 year old man who was very intelligent and did many things. I believe that the more we try to learn, the more our memory improves.
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