Does learning another language help you become a better writer?

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2016-03-22 07:36:15 Post No. 7838657
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Anonymous 2016-03-22 07:36:15 Post No. 7838657 [Report]

Does learning another language help you become a better writer? Or is it just helpful if you want to be a more "literary" person by reading the original? I wonder because both Nabokov and Joyce happen to be polyglots and it seems like a lot of writers happen to know second languages? Is it just a reflection of a higher verbal IQ or does it actually help in some oblique way?

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Anonymous 2016-03-22 07:37:38 Post No.7838662
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Anonymous 2016-03-22 07:37:38 Post No.7838662 [Report]

To clarify, I meant better writer in your first language only -- So in other words do second/third languages carry over to your first language?

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Anonymous 2016-03-22 07:39:49 Post No.7838669
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Anonymous 2016-03-22 07:39:49 Post No.7838669 [Report]

probably. i think about language differently and my writing has improved since learning japanese

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Anonymous 2016-03-22 07:42:26 Post No.7838677
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Anonymous 2016-03-22 07:42:26 Post No.7838677 [Report]

>>7838657
You don't truly know your native language until you become multilingual.

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Anonymous 2016-03-22 07:44:17 Post No.7838680
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Anonymous 2016-03-22 07:44:17 Post No.7838680 [Report]

>>7838677
Can you expand on this?

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Anonymous 2016-03-22 07:55:24 Post No.7838694
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Anonymous 2016-03-22 07:55:24 Post No.7838694 [Report]

>>7838680
If your first language is e.g. English, becoming aware of differences between English and other languages gives you a fuller understanding of the workings of English. Though it won't necessarily make you a better writer.