When You Don't Learn Your Parent's Language, What Is Lost?
Publisher |
KQED
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
California
News & Politics
Categories Via RSS |
Daily News
News
Politics
Publication Date |
Nov 26, 2022
Episode Duration |
00:29:39
This Thanksgiving weekend, we’re reprising one of our favorite episodes about family and belonging. It’s about what happens when you don’t learn your “heritage language," the language your parents or grandparents speak. Like many of us who are multiracial, or children of immigrants, KQED reporter Izzy Bloom gets asked all the time why she doesn’t speak her heritage language, Japanese. She usually says she's not as good as she'd like to be because her mother didn't teach her older brother, and because he wasn't taught Japanese, neither was she. It sounds simple enough, but the story is actually much more complicated. We hear about Izzy’s journey to get to the real answer, and find out what she discovers about her family along the way.

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