Learning new languages will literally make you see the world differently

Researchers have found that people who speak more than one language literally see the world differently, ScienceMag reveals. Researchers have found that depending on the primary language spoken, people looking at the same set of events perceive things differently. For example, Russian speakers apparently can distinguish shades of blue faster than English speakers, while Japanese speakers group objects by material rather than shape. DON’T MISS: Watch: Mesmerizing video gives an incredible look at Friday morning’s solar eclipse But a new study from the Lancaster University in the United Kingdom focused on bilinguals and looked at how these people see the world and it found some surprising results. “ taking that classic debate and turning it on its head,” psycholinguist Panos



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