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Multilingualism leads to better lateral thinking

Saturday, 28 June 2014 - 9:01am IST | Place: Pune

Dr Bhooshan Shukla

As you are reading this article, I can safely assume that you are multilingual. I can say this with confidence because only a tiny per cent of Indians have English as their mother tongue. Due to our adoption of trilingual system, all educated folks speak two languages with good fluency and one or two more at passable level. Add to that our love of all things ancient and foreign and we have Sanskrit, German, French, Spanish and even Mandarin as languages to be learnt.

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