**This is a collaborative post. People who speak more than one language are at an advantage when it comes to travel, work and their social lives. Fluency in another language is more important than you might think. Research in the last decade by neurologists, psychologists and linguists, using the latest brain-imaging equipment, has revealed many cognitive benefits for bilinguals. Bilingual people are proven to recover faster from brain injuries and strokes than monolingual people and what’s  ...