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A Language of Belonging: Advice for Learning the Mother Tongue of Your Ancestors
- The Coalition, a nationwide initiative that connects and advocates for Community-Based Heritage Language Schools, has documented nearly 1,000 programs teaching 62 languages in 44 states, helping families reinforce ties to their ancestral heritage.
- Associate director Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan at the National Heritage Language Resource Center explains that heritage language learners organically acquire familiarity with a language as young children, typically hearing it spoken at home to varying degrees.
- Ana Lico exposed her sons, now 20 and 23, to Brazilian Portuguese through local heritage schools, music, and sports, helping them maintain deep connections to their Brazilian roots and cultural identity.
- Joy Peyton, president of the Coalition of Community-Based Heritage Language Schools, notes that simple interactions with relatives and community activities effectively build vocabulary and fluency for both children and adults.
- Arturo Diaz, executive director of the UCLA Center for World Languages, advises learners to "just have fun with the experience" and remove apprehension, emphasizing that perfection need not be the goal.
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A language of belonging: Advice for learning the mother tongue of your ancestors – WTOP News
NEW YORK (AP) — Losing a tangible connection to your family’s ancestral homeland can bring unexpected sorrow, whether through the death of an older relative, the sale of a property passed down for generations gets sold or the destruction a handful of surviving heirlooms. Learning a language spoken by their parents, grandparents or great-grandparents is...
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