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Robin - Belonging slightly to three cultures and fully to none

🇪🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷 This episode’s guest is Robin Molinas, he grew up in London with a Spanish dad and a French mom.


With Robin, we talked about:

<ul><li>Brothers with a similar education developing different attachments to the cultures</li><li>Speaking ...  Show more

Ute - A linguist’s approach to transmitting languages

🇳🇱🇮🇹🇩🇪🇨🇭This episode’s guest is Ute Limacher Riebold, a language expert, and a multilingual mom herself.


With Ute, we talked about:

<ul><li>Foreground languages and background languages</li><li>Gamifying the navigation between languages wh ...  Show more

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