Harvard University

I felt frustrated. The air of superiority UWC gave me over the locals of Dilijan—it didn’t feel right, and I knew it had to go. I had learned about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, the idea that a language shapes the way its speakers view the world. If I wanted to be able to see the world through the eyes of my Argentinian best friend, my Quebecois roommate, or the people of my host country, Armenia, I could only ever truly do so by speaking Spanish, French and Armenian. So, I decided to learn Armenian, the same way I had taught myself Spanish three years ago. Armed with “Eastern Armenian for the…