S01 E07 To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world

Veronika Laughlin grew up as a monolingual German who started to develop a passion for different languages and cultures early on in her life. After graduating with a PhD in Applied Linguistics, she turned her passion into a job and became a research scientist. She is also the woman behind bilingual babies , which she launched in 2018, and where she shares personal experience and knowledge about raising children with more than one language. Further, she has just published her first bilingual children's book . Today's title is To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world and we will talk about how language develops in the brain, raising kids with many languages, reading, Carrie Fischer, Rupi Kaur and much more.  

Host: Stella Saliari  

At Salt The Podcast my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected.

Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment because as Kimberlé Crenshaw says “women come from a whole range of backgrounds. If our visions of peace don’t include these differences, then our peace will be partial.’’  

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