Episode 31: My Language Makes Canada

There are currently over 450 heart languages spoken in Canada, according to the most recent statistics of 2021. With language comes identity, culture, history, and family. And when we immigrate, so much is sacrificed in order to adapt and even survive. Language is one of the first to be compromised. But should it be?

Hostion and Andrea discuss their journey with their family’s heart languages and how submersion into a majority-speaking English country can slowly decrease the use of those languages. What does it mean that Canada is a multi-lingual country? Why do some of us who immigrated choose to avoid speaking our heart language while others of us strive to keep it alive? How do we restore lost languages and what can we pursue in light of language revitalization efforts amplified by the Indigenous Peoples of Canada? Our languages are the languages of Canada - all 450 of them.

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