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How Learning a New Language Changes Our Understanding of Ourselves

Lahiri affirms that understanding the Other by learning a new language leads to knowledge of the self.

Higher Education Video Blog World Languages with Jhumpa Lahiri

"I believe you can only really know yourself by going outside of yourself."

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Author: McGraw Hill Higher Education

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