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Mother Tongue

Mother Tongue

FromThe Stoop


Mother Tongue

FromThe Stoop

ratings:
Length:
32 minutes
Released:
Aug 10, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

What’s it like when everyone at home speaks a language you don’t understand? That’s the story of Claudia, a Ghanaian American who grew up not speaking her home language —her ‘Mother Tongue’. But everybody else did, including her own siblings. The effects were real: disconnect, frustration, shame, and at some point a full on identity crisis. We also ask other people in the diaspora if they speak their home languages, and Hana contends with her own kids’ lack of fluency, and what it means.
Released:
Aug 10, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

The Stoop podcast digs into stories that are not always shared out in the open. Hosts Leila Day and Hana Baba start conversations and provide professionally-reported stories about what it means to be black and how we talk about blackness. Come hang out on The Stoop as we dialog about the diaspora.