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Ep217. ft. Yulia Akhmetova - The Hidden Crisis of Multilingual Families: Why Children Lose Their Home Language (Part 1)
Your child can speak your language today… and slowly lose it tomorrow.
In this powerful episode, Yulia Akhmetova joins the Languages Pedagogy Podcast to unpack the hidden crisis many multilingual families face: children gradually abandoning their home language, and with it, part of their identity.
We explore why language loss is not just about vocabulary, but about family roots, culture, memory, emotional connection, and belonging. Yulia breaks down major bilingualism myths, including whether two languages confuse children, why kids mix languages, what translanguaging really means, and why…
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