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Change your mind, change your life! The benefits of learning another language
Why learning another language should be compulsory in every school! by Daniel Everett
In the 1960s, in our public schools in California along the border with Mexico, Spanish language-learning was a requirement, beginning in sixth grade. I couldn’t wait to get to sixth grade to start learning Spanish. Our school was more than 50 percent Mexican-Americans, and I was keen to understand them as they switched back and forth from fluent Englis…
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