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Lost in Translation: Why Your French Self Has No Personality

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Before moving to France for a year abroad, my biggest worry wasn’t grammar or vocabulary. It was whether I’d have a personality in French. I feared that native speakers would hear only broken French and find a blank canvas where my personality should be. The idea of having a different personality in a foreign language is a genuine linguistic concept. A 2014 study showed that thinking in a…

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