Viorica Marian - The Power of Language
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The Relationship Between Mother Tongue and Second Language
The idea that all the languages we end up speaking somehow shape our sense of self. For some people like you describe it can be a difficult and a painful association but for others on the contrary the mother tongue can be associated with warmth, joy and childhood. Both languages have both positive and negative associations so it really varies in this case languageYou know functions as a mental frame that activates it as a frame of reference for our memories.
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