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Does Speaking Another Language Change How You Think? | Scott H Young
Language Learning Changes The Perspective
Learning a new language provides access to people who have different thoughts than our own, helping us understand ourselves and the world with a new insightful mindset that didn’t exist before.
Learning a new language, therefore is not just culture, but a way into the minds of people who are not like us.
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