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When Learning a New Language Mode Changes Your Consciousness

I learned sign language for my deaf cousin but now I think in visual space and my hearing family feels unreachable.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Acquiring fundamentally different linguistic systems can alter cognitive processing in ways that affect all communication.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Multilingualism and its gifts?”

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