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Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes Thought

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The Importance of a Natural Mapping of Time Points

English speakers tend to think of time as moving, but Mandarin speakers don't. English bilinguals look more like Mandarin speakers than the ones that are tested in another language. So there's both a long-term and short-term effect on people who learn one language while they're not speaking it at the moment.

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