Learning Languages Pays Off

As bilinguals, one of our greatest hopes is that the efforts we have invested in learning a second language (L2) will also pay off when we learn the third one (L3). The more languages we know, the easier it should be to learn them, right? A positive answer to this question can have tremendous implications for language education. And yet researchers limit themselves instead to the non-committal “it depends." Why is that? And what does our success in L3 learning depend on? Answers are on the way:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/life-bilingual/201506/can-second-language-help-you-learn-third