EP5 - De la majorité à la minorité

Nicole va à la rencontre de deux autres familles exogames, les Fletcher et les Anderson, qui ont des approches très différentes de la transmission du français. Alors qu’on ne se met pas trop de pression chez les Fletcher, la famille Anderson est plus militante. Malgré tout, les p ...  Show more

La majorité des couples exogames formés d’un anglophone et d’un francophone ne réussissent pas à transmettre le français à leurs enfants, même si de plus en plus de gens sont sensibilisés aux bienfaits du bilinguisme. Après avoir passé 15 ans au Michigan, Jacqueline Nutting a cho ...  Show more

Raised in Japan, this week's guest moved to Canada because of the freedom and culture of openness. Hardly able to speak the language, she now works a job where she literally helps people speak for themselves in difficult situations. Gethard met up with her and recorded this ju ...

In the age of Tinder, meet Becca and Ben. They're a French couple living in Taiwan who have spent half their lives together. The French are renowned for being romantics, so let's explore how they met and what love means to them.

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Today on the show, we're bringing you the stories of two families grappling with how best to communicate across linguistic differences. In the first story, a young man sorts through how to talk to his parents about gender in Chinese, where the words for "he" and "she" sound exact ...  Show more

What to do when you’re about to marry the love of your life and your family ACTUALLY speaks now and do not forever hold their peace? This week, Stephanie and Melissa read an email from listener Rachel, who is having trouble navigating the fact that she and her now husband come fr ...  Show more