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Learning a language has benefits beyond that, it can be it's own reward to have dedicated time to something and have it pay off and it is good for brain health. Bilingual people suffer less from dementias.
I agree with this line of reasoning. You also don't have to aim for fluency right off the bat, just knowing 50 common words will help and 500 words will feel incroyable.
I see what you did there though I had to look it up, long time since I learned French
Pretty sure that's people who were bilingual their whole lives, not people who learned another language later in life. It's about how the brain deals with thinking in both languages.
Once you're older it's the same benefit as sudoku, which is still something