I studied German and Japanese and it was very interesting indeed. However, what I was responding to is the common misnomer that language studies create cogniti

I studied German and Japanese and it was very interesting indeed. However, what I was responding to is the common misnomer that language studies create cognitive improvements as my high school advisor and the above poster alluded to. The scientific consensus at the moment is that so far it only appears to help in word search ability. There's no other established improvement.