Language

  • Lost in Translation – Podcast 27

    Marking UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day Saira Bhatti and Bareera Ghaffar discuss what happens when you lose your mother tongue. What does it mean when a language is no longer passed down? And why do so many of us feel pressure to prioritise English over the language of our ancestors?

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  • Re-examining my Mother Tongue

    When the word ‘the’ brought new meaning and a re-evaluation of my mother tongue, and myself  Iffat Mirza Rashid, Bentley “I like the idea of knowing it, but I don’t think I want to sit in a class and learn it” is something I said to my Spanish teacher as a 16-year-old as he tried

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