International Mother Language Day 2019 is observed on February 21. Owing to its vast variety of languages India has a large number of multilingual people. Many of us Indians are comfortable speaking and understanding at least 2-3 languages our mother tongue English and Hindi which are widely spoken across the country and taught in our schools and also other languages which we may be well versed with because of having friends or having grown up in neighbourhoods that speak different languages. A number of studies say that being multilingual has a number of health benefits. Let s take a look