We need to find what the passage says does NOT help language change us as people. Let us trace through the author's argument about how language transforms people. The author argues that language learning is transformative -> he gives specific reasons why ->we need to check which option isn't mentioned as a transformative factor. From passage: "This learning process-the embarrassments, the frustrations, the gradual sense of understanding and connection-is invariably transformative." From passage: "You are what you speak the words that run throughout your mind are at least as fundamental to your selfhood as is your ethnicity or your gender." The author focuses on individual experience of learning languages -> not on how languages change over centuries -> he talks about personal transformation through language learning.

🟠 Option 1 -> supported by passage -> "After all, you can always learn another language and change who you are" shows language can overcome birth identity markers 🟠 Option 2 -> supported by passage -> "words that run throughout your mind are at least as fundamental to your selfhood as is your ethnicity" shows language's connection to identity 🟢 Option 3 -> not mentioned -> passage talks about individuals learning languages, not about how languages evolve over time - author never discusses historical language evolution as transformative 🟠 Option 4 -> supported by passage -> "embarrassments, frustrations, gradual sense of understanding" explicitly mentions the ups and downs of language learning as transformative

The confusion might be between Options 1 and 3. But Option 1 is clearly supported -> the author says you can "change who you are" by learning languages, which means overcoming what you're born with. Option 3 talks about language evolution over centuries -> but the author only discusses personal language learning journeys, not historical language changes.

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