It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.
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Reading makes you smarter. It really does.
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.
The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.
The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages.
But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.
When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.