{"id":22167,"date":"2026-05-22T11:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studandglobe.com\/quand-tu-parles-une-autre-langue-tu-deviens\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T11:47:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:47:45","slug":"when-you-speak-another-language-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studandglobe.com\/en\/blog\/when-you-speak-another-language-you\/","title":{"rendered":"When you speak another language, you become someone else (and science proves it)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When you speak another language, you become someone else (and science proves it)<\/span><\/h1>\n

Have you ever had that strange feeling?<\/p>\n

You speak French with your friends. You feel a certain way. Calm, maybe a little reserved.<\/p>\n

Then you switch to English or Spanish. And suddenly, without even realizing it, you’re not quite the same person anymore. You laugh louder. You’re more direct. More expressive. You make jokes you would never make in your native language.<\/p>\n

You tell yourself it’s all in your head. That you’re playing a role.<\/p>\n

In reality, what you’re experiencing has a scientific name. And it’s one of the most fascinating transformations that an internship abroad<\/strong> can offer you.<\/p>\n

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The Phenomenon Has a Name: The Bilingual Personality<\/span><\/h2>\n

When you change languages, you change mental frameworks. Your emotions, your tone, your reactions, everything shifts toward another version of yourself.<\/p>\n

Researchers in psycholinguistics have confirmed this since the 1960s<\/a>: this phenomenon is called the Bilingual Personality Hypothesis<\/strong>. According to them, your personality is not fixed. It is fluid, and the language you speak acts like a lens that colors the way you experience the world.<\/p>\n

You’re not schizophrenic. You’re simply multidimensional. And that’s excellent news.<\/p>\n

What Science Says (Concretely)<\/span><\/h2>\n

One of the first researchers to document this phenomenon was Susan Ervin-Tripp<\/a>, a psycholinguist from Berkeley.<\/p>\n

In 1968, she asked Japanese-American women living in San Francisco to complete the same sentences in Japanese and then in English.<\/p>\n

The result?<\/p>\n

To the sentence “When my desires conflict with my family\u2026”<\/em>, here were the responses:<\/p>\n