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Bilingual writers reflect on their ‘Mother Tongues’

Thursday, September 2nd, 2004

Learning a new language means more than memorizing a new vocabulary and mastering different rules of grammar. It also means adopting a new way of matching words to experience and memory, as “The Genius of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongues” (Pantheon, $23) illustrates.
This collection of essays by bilingual authors—most of them immigrants [...]

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