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Margaret Czarnik, a junior at NYU Shanghai majoring in Social Science, is a lifelong language learner. She speaks four: her native Polish, English, French, and, since her first year of college, Mandarin. Her talent for language played a significant role in her decision to attend NYU Shanghai. The opportunity to be among students with diverse […]
Foreign languages can provide a gateway to new cultures, new relationships, and new opportunities. And, of course, an organic environment where students engage with native users is one of the best ways for students to hone language skills. At NYU Buenos Aires and NYU Madrid, the University’s two Spanish-using locations, students can learn Spanish in […]
The brain uses a shared mechanism for combining words from a single language as well as ones from two different languages, a team of neuroscientists has discovered. The findings indicate that switching languages comes naturally to those who are bilingual because the brain has a mechanism that does not detect that the language has switched, […]