Did you know that about 1000 years ago the English court was eager to learn to speak French just because it was fancy? Yes, those were the days of the Bonnie Prince from the TV series Kidnapped that was aired long before I was born.
After I was born I was eager myself to learn to speak French, not sure if I want to become a queen of some sort…
To be honest, I love to learn languages because lets face it: what are the things you really use that you learned the first 18 years you spent in school? To count is one (unless you are not even able to count without a calculator).
The languages you learned is two and all the history (yeah, I don’t even know the name of the above Bonnie Prince although I wouldn’t be surprised it was a Louis with another count…), all the I don’t know what: exactly: I really don’t know what.
But I do know I am using the languages I learned each and every day. That’s why I kept on studying languages in evening school: not only because it is fun, but for me it is something you can be sure of you are learning something useful.
For the guys out there: French is a very romantic language and for the kinky guys amongst you: if you ever order a French maid (don’t ask me how to do that!), then you better have some French love words under your sleeve 
So if you want to keep your brain from being stimulated (which is a good thing to prevent yourself from dementia): go learn to speak French!
