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Watch Your Mouth

Hidden Brain

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Languages and Cultures Construct Space to Organize Time

Time is a crucial part of the human experience but we also can't experience anything outside of time. We rely on space to organize time so for English speakers people who read from left to right time tends to flow from left toRight. If you speak more than one language does this mean that you're simultaneously and constantly shifting in your mind between different world views? That's a wonderful question. One possibility for bilinguals would be that they just have two different minds inside. So one skull but two different minds and you shift from one to the other. Another possibility is that it's a fully integrated mind and it just incorporates ideas and distinctions from both languages or from many languages if you speakMore than

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