After Luxemburg and together with Malta, Utrecht is the second multilingual hotspot in Europa. How can we use these qualities in daily life? How can we improve the knowledge of languages in our city? How can we make our city an interesting European laboratory in a globalizing world? This weblog will collect local and global inspirations for creating this laboratory.
A lifetime of speaking two or more languages appears to pay off in old age, with recent research showing the symptoms of dementia can be delayed by an average of four years in bilingual people.