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Learning a New Language Transforms Your Identity

Lahiri explains how learning a new language adds to your identity by opening your mind, your life, and your heart to new friends and perspectives.

Higher Education Video Blog World Languages with Jhumpa Lahiri

"If you learn another language... it will alter your identity in ways that are only beneficial because I think that the more porous identity becomes the better off we are as a human race."

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Author: McGraw Hill Higher Education

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