Dialects Have a Similarly Positive Effect on the Brain as Foreign Languages, Claim German Scientists

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A Marburg brain study suggests that speaking dialect calls for language regions in the brain similar to bilingualism.

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Learning foreign languages sharpens the brain and keeps it fit, but the same applies to dialects. This is according to scientists from the University of Marburg in western Germany, who published a study in the journal Nature Scientific Reports, as pointed out by the regional public broadcaster MDR.