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.

THE best way for deferring dementia is reading music.

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

I just had to follow that link through to the Ao Dai report and found it interesting that Nguyen Thi May is (apparently) an ethnic Cambodian (i.e., a Khmer Krom) if I heard right. Of course, you can be born in Phnom Penh, be from An Giang province, and still be Vietnamese. Still, names down there can fool you. Like Son Ngoc Thanh's.

A very nice ao dai, by the way. Reminds me of the red and white ao dai that our daughter (also a vegan) wore at her wedding.

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?)