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How to connect across the English-Spanish language barrier

While you can easily hear many languages in Middle Tennessee, Spanish is the second-most spoken language here after English. For anyone who is not fully bilingual, communicating across a language barrier can be at times humorous, but more often than not frustrating, discouraging, if not high stakes when it comes to situations involving medical care, education or basic services. So how can we better connect?

Today, we’re talking with the people behind companies and organizations that offer local Spanish and English language classes as well as resources available for English Learning students…

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