Lera Boroditsky: How Language Secretly Changes Your Personality

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  So you speak Russian?

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  I speak Russian.

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  Why do you speak Russian?

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  I grew up in Ukraine and Belarus.

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  And so, wait, in Belarus, don't they speak, oh, I'm going to expose myself.

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  I've always thought it was like Belarusian.

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  No, Belarusian is how I've always said it.

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  Both Russian and Belarusian are spoken in Belarus.

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  But it was mostly Russian when I lived there.

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  Wait, so did you grow up speaking Russian?

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  I grew up speaking Russian, yeah.

• 00:32

  And then at what age did you start speaking English?

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  When I was 12. Wow, I don't pick it up at all.

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  Normally I can hear when somebody has like...

• 00:41

  11 and a half.

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  No, really.

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  That's when I genuinely...

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  I can normally pick up when somebody started speaking, especially English, at a much later...

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  Because there's like little small ticks that they'll give away in the language

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  where you're like, oh no, that's from that other language.

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