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The Foreign Language That Changed My Teenage Son’s Life (www.nytimes.com)
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Language is a great way to discover oneself. It is not just about interacting with different people, although this is on itself huge; it's also the mental freedom that it gives you, as it enables you to work around the difficulties that one language might impose.

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