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“Stephanie, go do your LOTR study!”

“Okay Mom!”

I rush up the stairs and into my bedroom, pushing the door closed behind me. The familiar thrill of anticipation flutters in my stomach as I flop on the बिस्तर and खोजिए for the chapter I’m supposed to read next: The Bridge of Khazad-Dum. Sitting back comfortably, I take a deep breath and begin to read...

The Company of the Ring stood silent beside the tomb of Balin. Frodo thought of Bilbo and his long friendship with the dwarf, and of Balin’s visit to the Shire long ago. In that dusty chamber in the mountains it seemed a thousand years...

LANGUAGE SKILL ATTRITION AND MAINTENANCE
Just as human beings possess a great capacity to acquire language, they also have a capacity for losing it. Although some individuals have experienced language loss या attrition as a result of a head wound, stroke, या other स्रोत of brain damage, many और have लॉस्ट language skills through lack of a linguistically appropriate social environment in which to use them. Instances include: a speaker of a language who lives in an environment in which another language is considered और socially useful; a speaker of a language who moves to a country where a...