A new study on how people learn to speak new languages has found that students who learn the language of a particular culture are more likely to absorb the customs and traditions of that culture. For instance, one study found that university students learning Japanese as a second language were more likely to adopt the cultural norms of Japan than were students who learned other languages.
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