Interesting Read - Being Multilingual Alters Your Experience of Time

The World Economic Forum has published an article on how being multilingual can alter your experience of time. 

 We have known for some time that bilinguals go back and forth between their languages rapidly and often unconsciously – a phenomenon called code-switching. But different languages also embody different worldviews and different ways of organising the world around us. The way that bilinguals handle these different ways of thinking has long been a mystery to language researchers.

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