When You Don't Learn Your Parent's Language, What Is Lost? | KQED
The mother of KQED reporter Izzy Bloom never taught her daughter to speak her native language, Japanese, because she was told by doctors that doing so would be detrimental to her brother, who has a rare genetic syndrome. The truth turned out to be more complicated.
Hasnain says:
Great human interest story that goes into some of the science behind multilingualism and how kids with disabilities are (and are not!) affected by it.
““In the U.S., what is so interesting is that we are probably the most plurilingual country in the world. We have a lot of languages that are being spoken,” she said. “But it's also one of the most aggressively ideologically monolingual countries in the world in that we really don't casually accept that multilingualism is normal and should be preserved.””
Posted on 2022-05-21T17:49:41+0000