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On today’s episode of Thinking in English we will discuss some of the lesser known benefits of learning a foreign language. 

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Vocabulary 

Cognitive -  of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering)  

Researchers are debating whether heading balls can dent the cognitive skills of young soccer players for life. 

Longevity - a long duration of individual life, remaining popular for a long time 

For longevity in car design, you really need to keep it simple. 

Functionality - the quality of being useful, practical, and right for the purpose for which something was made: 

In civil engineering, a major component of functionality is safety. 

Multitask - to do more than one thing at a time: 

There's a stereotype that women tend to multitask better than men do.

 Counter-intuitive - Something that is counter-intuitive does not happen in the way you would expect it to: 

Steering a sailboat is counter-intuitive - you push the tiller the opposite way to the way you want to go. 

Alzheimer - a disease of the brain that mainly affects old people and results in the gradual loss of memory, speech, movement, and the ability to think clearly: 

Dementia- a medical condition that affects especially old people, causing the memory and other mental abilities to gradually become worse, and leading to confused behaviour: 

The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer's disease.

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