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Learning a language has benefits beyond that, it can be it's own reward to have dedicated time to something and have it pay off and it is good for brain health. Bilingual people suffer less from dementias.
Pretty sure that's people who were bilingual their whole lives, not people who learned another language later in life. It's about how the brain deals with thinking in both languages.
Once you're older it's the same benefit as sudoku, which is still something