speakroots:I feel like being a linguistics student kind of removed me from the reality that some p
speakroots: I feel like being a linguistics student kind of removed me from the reality that some people don’t know what a heritage language is. I posted about heritage languages a while ago on my main blog and someone had no idea what the term was, but said it totally applied to them and that they were happy that a term actually existed. I’m currently reading a book (reference in last cube) written mostly for researchers, students, people in the academic realm–and found some things that I wanted to share and that others might find usefuuul. One thing to note is that the book mostly includes studies done on bilingual heritage language speakers (i.e. those who to some extent grew up being exposed to another language, and includes speakers who may not have ability to produce but can understand), as opposed to people who did not grow up exposed to another language but feel a cultural connection due to family ties, etc. Enjoyyyy and lmk if there’s any additional questions regarding this topic/if I was missing some useful information that would be helpful. ✨ -- source link
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