Language

Learning a new language can grow one's [perspective:opinion] . Now scientists find that learning languages grows parts of the brain. Scientists [studied:researched] the brains of students in the Swedish Armed Forces Interpreter Academy, who are required to learn new languages at a very fast rate. Many must become fluent in Arabic, Russian and the Persian dialect Dari in just 13 months. The researchers [compared:contrast] the brains of these students to the brains of medical students who also have to learn a tremendous amount in a very short period of time, but without the focus on [languages:linguistics] . The brains of the language learners exhibited significant new growth in the hippo campus and in parts of the cerebral cortex. The medical students' brains showed no [observed:big] growth. The study was in the journal Neuro Image. Interestingly, the amount of growth in the brains of the linguists correlated with better skills so those with better language skills also [experienced:exposed] more growth in the hippo campus and areas of the cerebral cortex that relate to language.