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Language Learning and Desire

Lahiri explains how desire drives us to evolve and change throughout our lives, and that learning languages can translate that desire into understanding new ways of thinking and living.


Higher Education Video Blog World Languages with Jhumpa Lahiri

"[T]here is a switch, immediately, when your brain switches into another language and with that, perhaps, into another culture, into another way of being, into another way of thinking, another way of living."

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Author: McGraw Hill Higher Education

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