1. English as part of a healthy lifestyle? (English Vocabulary Lesson)

<p><strong>FULL TRANSCRIPT NOW AVAILABLE: https://thinkinginenglish741418158.wordpress.com/&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>On today’s episode of Thinking in English we will discuss some of the lesser known benefits of learning a foreign language.&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>Please contact us!&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>INSTAGRAM - thinkinginenglishpodcast (https://www.instagram.com/thinkinginenglishpodcast/)</strong></p> <p><strong>Twitter - @thinkenglishpod</strong></p> <p><strong>Email: thinkinginenglishpod@gmail.com&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>Vocabulary&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>Cognitive - &nbsp;of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) &nbsp;</p> <p>Researchers are debating whether heading balls can dent the cognitive skills of young soccer players for life.&nbsp;</p> <p>Longevity - a long duration of individual life, remaining popular for a long time&nbsp;</p> <p>For longevity in car design, you really need to keep it simple.&nbsp;</p> <p>Functionality - the quality of being useful, practical, and right for the purpose for which something was made:&nbsp;</p> <p>In civil engineering, a major component of functionality is safety.&nbsp;</p> <p>Multitask - to do more than one thing at a time:&nbsp;</p> <p>There's a stereotype that women tend to multitask better than men do.</p> <p>&nbsp;Counter-intuitive - Something that is counter-intuitive does not happen in the way you would expect it to:&nbsp;</p> <p>Steering a sailboat is counter-intuitive - you push the tiller the opposite way to the way you want to go.&nbsp;</p> <p>Alzheimer - a disease of the brain that mainly affects old people and results in the gradual loss of memory, speech, movement, and the ability to think clearly:&nbsp;</p> <p>Dementia- a medical condition that affects especially old people, causing the memory and other mental abilities to gradually become worse, and leading to confused behaviour:&nbsp;</p> <p>The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer's disease.</p>