Now that science has corroborated that bilingualism makes us smarter, and profoundly benefits the brain, as reported by the New York Times, people are brushing up on their Spanish. At least resorting to words both languages have in common—not few. In 1060 the French invaded the British Iles and injected English with a heavy dose of Latin, accounting for over fifty percent of its vocabulary, and of course Spanish derives from Latin.