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Can Speaking a Diff Language Actually Change Our Personality? GUEST EP - Beatriz Lopez (Sociolinguist + Language Teacher)

Clashists by Gabrielle Pedriani + Daniela Cadena

Episode notes

CLASH: HOW LANGUAGE IMPACTS PERSONALITY. Does your vibe actually shift when you swap languages? Is French really the sexiest language? Is the fear of looking like an idiot thwarting our impending fluency? This week, Gabby and Dani are joined by linguist and language wizard Beatriz Lopez to unpack the wild (and painfully exhausting) subject of bi- (and tri) lingual brains. We get into whether speaking French actually rewires your personality (spoiler: sort of), why flirting feels smoother en français, and whether French actually deserves its rep as a hard-to-learn language—or if we're just A+ whiners. Come for the sociology, stay for the existential crisis.

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