As if the benefits of learning a foreign language aren’t fruitful enough in making you a more worldly person, research has shown that it can help beef up your brain – the cerebral cortex to be exact, which controls nearly all of your brain power: reasoning, visual processing, planning, and memory. Learning a new language can also enlarge your hippocampus, the part of the brain that also helps with long term memory forming.
Pam Eastham, the French group’s leader, tells me that the group started in October 2003 and has always met on a weekly basis, which although a bit of a commitment all members at times have weeks off because of family events and holidays. Pam is also involved with the Twinning Association and members of the group have on two occasions entertained the French visitors.
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