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.. include delaying Alzheimer's disease, and probably similar forms of cognitive decline.  This effect far outstrips the latest drug approved for that purpose.

1) Given a choice between a free treatment that requires a lot of work, and an expensive drug, I suspect that people who can obtain the drug will prefer it.  But the free option remains available to everyone.

2) Since proficiency is what matters, a great improvement to public health could be made by teaching all children a second language from birth or at least preschool, when it is possible to learn with native fluency.  I doubt that America has any interest in doing so.  But any parent could arrange it for their own kids, especially if there is a history of cognitive illness in the family.

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Date: 2023-02-23 05:33 am (UTC)
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Cool! I'm hoping to get to the point where the French and at least one other language is actually usable, but I'm not quite there yet. I am at the point though where sometimes I'll be trying to think of the word in one language and go, "Oh hey, that word is "X" in the other language," so that's cool.

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