Foreign languages

Learning Your Heritage Language

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 27, 2022

Maria Carreira, co-founder of the National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA and professor emerita of Spanish at California State University, Long Beach, offers tips to listeners who want to learn the language or languages they grew up hearing at home.

→ How to learn a heritage language | NPR's Life Kit

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