The Foreign Language That Changed My Teenage Son’s Life

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The Foreign Language That Changed My Teenage Son’s Life

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Linguistics · 2 months ago

I worried about his ability to fit in. But then he fell in love with Russian — and on a trip to Central Asia, he flourished.

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