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“To have another language is to possess a second soul” Emperor Charlemagne

By Anita Mathias

“To have another language is to possess a second soul” Emperor Charlemagne.

It is indeed true. It is amazing, how one’s personality, gesticulations, facial expressions, and ways of expressing oneself change when one speaks a new language. I learnt 2 before I was 10–English and Hindi;  2 in my teens–Sanskrit and Bengali 2 in my twenties–French and Classical Greek;  had babies in my thirties, and am now working again on fluency in French. Acquiring fluency in a new language is an exciting adventure!

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