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The Psychology of Language, with Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater

Intelligence Squared

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Is It Useful to Know More Than One Language?

There's been a lot of debate with regard to the benefits of knowing more than one language. Being able to trade out between the two languages might be helpful because you might be able to develop an idea in one language that would be harder to develop in anotherlanguage. But there's also the flip side of that is that you can actually get interference between multiple languages.

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