Thinking of Home Makes It Harder to Learn a Foreign Language

[Francis Hult]

Wired



Thinking of Home Makes It Harder to Learn a Foreign Language



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.”



Full story:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/06/foreign-language-learning/
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