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When learning a new language changes your sense of self

I've been learning Mandarin for two years and last week I dreamed in Chinese for the first time and I woke up feeling like I lost something essential about who I am.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The acquisition of a new linguistic framework is dissolving familiar boundaries of identity, creating existential disorientation.

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