There are many benefits to being bilingual. According to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, some of those benefits include:

• Being able to learn new words easily
• Being able to use information in new ways
• Coming up with solutions to problems
• Good listening skills
• Career advantages

Not only does speaking two languages boosts brain power, a new study says that it may delay the onset of Alzheimer’s.

For Latinos in the U.S. being bilingual is also a way to communicate with relatives outside of the U.S., to remain connected to our culture, and to pass that culture on to the next generation.

But not all Latinos in the U.S. have a full grasp of the Spanish language, many don’t speak it at all. There are of course ways to learn: classes, computer programs, and even websites —studyspanish.com offers free tutorials—but for the Latino on-the-go; there’s an app for that.

Read more on Being Latino Online Magazine’s Want to learn Spanish? There’s an app for that!