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At What Age Does Our Ability to Learn a New Language Like a Native Speaker Disappear? -... - 0 views

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    This article talks about when the cutoff age to learn a new language is. Studies show that youth are proficient in learning a new language until the age of 18 but if they want to understand and learn the fluency of a native speaker it is best to start by the age of 10.
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How the English language has evolved like a living creature | Science | AAAS - 0 views

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    This is about how language grows and changes. Every time someone learns it, it is reproduced.
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How Does Our Language Shape the Way We Think? - 2 views

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    This is from assistant professor Lera Boroditsky at Stanford University. She talks about how her research can show how language can shape the way that we think about time, shapes, space, colors and obejcts. "Language is central to our experience of being human, and the languages we speak profoundly shape the way we think, the way we see the world, the way we live our lives."
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Is swearing a sign of intelligence? People who curse have a larger vocabulary than thos... - 2 views

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    Common misconceptions about swearing are that the user is lazy with his words or uneducated, but Benjamin Bergen, Professor of cognitive sciences at UCSD, says otherwise.
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The future of language - 0 views

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    The amount of Americans learning a language other than English has decreased by 100,000 between 2009-2013. Many believe that taking a course in Economics is more beneficial than learning a second language; but what language will dominate the future? English only ranks third in for amount of people with it as a native language. Here are a few ways to think about what language will dominate in the near future.
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