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<p>Wired</p>
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<p>Thinking of Home Makes It Harder to Learn a Foreign Language</p>
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<p>Something odd happened when Shu Zhang was giving a presentation to her classmates at the Columbia Business School in New York City. Zhang, a Chinese native, spoke fluent English, yet in the middle of her talk, she glanced over at her Chinese professor and
suddenly blurted out a word in Mandarin. “I meant to say a transition word like ‘however,’ but used the Chinese version instead,” she says. “It really shocked me.”</p>
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<p>Full story:<br>
<a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/06/foreign-language-learning/">http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/06/foreign-language-learning/</a></p>
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