What happens when we learn new languages?

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What happens when we learn new languages?

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I found this piece very interesting - and it includes why native English speakers find it so hard to learn new languages - more so, it appears, than people learning English as a new language:


http://www.theguardian.com/education/20 ... CMP=twt_gu
Language learning: what motivates us?

What happens in the brain when we try to learn a language can tell us a lot about what drives us to learn it in the first place. Lauren Razavi unpacks the science.
Debbie Hepplewhite
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