Abstract

We are living in a time and space where you  constantly need to improve yourself. Numerous seminars, diverse courses, various trainings, and everlasting efforts. All of them serve the same purpose: our mental and intellectual improvement. When one examines those attempts closely, foreign language education will be one of some others in the foreground. Nowadays, people have the urge to acquire at least one foreign language and consider it as a must for educational and business purposes since it brings a large number of profits. Engaging with people from different countries and cultures and carrying your business to a more global and international environment are a few examples of benefits of L2 education. Likewise, attaining higher education abroad would give any learner a new perspective and a more widened horizon because, as Federico Fellini says, “a different language is a different vision of life.” However, there are even more significant benefits of L2 education apart from these. In fact, learning a second language helps to improve cognitive skills such as intelligence and memory, while diminishing risks of developing brain-related diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer’s.

Keywords: Foreign language, Learning, Cognitive skills, Intelligence, Memory