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"Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Communication, Language, Understanding, Foreign, Memory

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"Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you."

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