Here's your incentive for learning Vietnamese

Tran Hung Dao wrote:

There was an American study that basically said if you can speak English AND Vietnamese, then your chances of getting dementia is lowered.  So for all you old farts out there, start practicing your Vietnamese or else you'll start to forget why you're here.


http://tuoitrenews.vn/lifestyle/14871/s … ntia-study

My wife won't let me forget why I'm here, no matter how much I try.

bluenz wrote:

Tran Hung Dao wrote:

There was an American study that basically said if you can speak English AND Vietnamese, then your chances of getting dementia is lowered.  So for all you old farts out there, start practicing your Vietnamese or else you'll start to forget why you're here.


http://tuoitrenews.vn/lifestyle/14871/s … ntia-study

My wife won't let me forget why I'm here, no matter how much I try.

Which is...?  See you're already forgetting...you forgot to write it down! 

Tran Hung Dao wrote:

There was an American study that basically said if you can speak English AND Vietnamese, then your chances of getting dementia is lowered.  So for all you old farts out there, start practicing your Vietnamese or else you'll start to forget why you're here.


http://tuoitrenews.vn/lifestyle/14871/s … ntia-study

What was that you said sonny ?  I've forgotten already.

Look at Pablo Casals, doing gifted interpretations of Bach at 96

Yes, but he also spoke two languages: Castillian and Catalan. (Maybe it was the lifelong diet of Puertorrican rice and beans?)