Immediate and delayed (30 min) memory for routine verbal and figural tasks was determined for men and women who utilized only one or more than one language. The immediate and delayed memory of men who had been fluent in a language other than English, before 6 years of age, contained 20 to 50% less detail than men who were only fluent in English. This discrepancy was not observed for women. There were no consistent sex differences for memory scores for the figural tasks. Covariance for neither spatial nor digit span altered the group differences for verbal memory. These results support the hypothesis that the lower verbal fluency of men relative to women is reflective of a general weakness in language processing; the effect may be simply exacerbated when another language (English) is acquired after 6 years of age.