Hello everyone. You're listening to the Earful Tower podcast, a show that's all about Paris, France, language, travel, all that kind of good stuff when it comes to France. And it's hosted by me, Oliver G, an Australian bloke who has called Paris home for about five years. Maybe you're listening. Who knows? Maybe you're on the other side of the world. Maybe you're in Hawaii. Maybe a 12 hours time difference. Is that a clue for the

Gmail? I'm going to read out at the end of the episode. Well, I don't know. But let me tell you,

this show here is brought to you by French today. It's an audiobooks company. You'll surely

know the voice of Kamei, who is the voice of the audiobooks. She has a spot every month on this show, but she's unfortunately rather ill and she's lost her voice, but never fear. Her husband, Olivier, has stepped in.

We spoke just this morning about the concept of being bilingual, or in his case, quadrililingual.

Imagine that. We talk about the idea of bringing up a child speaking two languages and the benefits that they can have, the advantages, the difficulties, you know, trying to convince a kid that it's cool to speak another language, can be hard apparently. But also, I want to address something that I said towards the end of the chat is I sort of suggested that being bilingual can prevent Alzheimer's. I feel like I said prevent

Alzheimer's. Let me just get this right. It can't prevent Alzheimer's, but it can delay the onset

of the symptoms as much as five years. The most recent research suggests that the people who

suffered from Alzheimer's have the same physical deterioration of their brain, whether they're

monolingual or bilingual, but the people who speak two languages don't exhibit the typical

symptoms of Alzheimer's such as memory loss, confusion, difficulties with problem solving and

planning until much later than those who only speak one language. There's the official word

on it. But yeah, anyway, the benefits are seemingly endless and that's what you're going to hear about today.

Hang around at the end of the episode for a little bit of Gmail.

But before we start, I just want to say last night, I had a really wonderful night.

I'm in the city alone, my wife's away, and it was getting sort of towards sunset time.

And I thought, you know know what I'm going to go

for a stroll in montmart because luckily I live up there and I walked you know this idea of

being a flanoe wandering aimlessly I did that I walked I never walked slowly I'm a fast walker

but I walked about a quarter of the speed that I usually do. I walk right through the heart

of the touristy bit up by the Place Tartre where all the artists are painting. I walked over to the

Sacre C cathedral or Basilica, if you want to call it by its real name, the Basilica. And the sky was

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