Hello Language Lovers! Thank you for joining me for this episode of Speaking Tongues- the podcast in conversation with multilinguals. I’m so happy to have this conversation with my guest this week, Danielle , the host of Young, Gifted and Abroad podcast about her languages of French and Japanese.

In this episode, Danielle talks about how her interest in Japanese and French grew starting from the classroom through Anime theme songs and French language cartoons. She tells us how she went to college intending on having a study abroad experience and ended up at an immersive program in Japan one year and in another year at a summer internship in Paris. We talk about what the immersive language experience is like and how being in this situation can be both humbling and emboldening. Danielle talks to us about how she is able to maintain a connection with French and Japanese while here living in the US and we talk about being black language learners and how an Afro Japanese singer had an impact on her wanting to learn Japanese.

Big thank you to Danielle for sharing your language journey with us and if you’re interested in a study abroad experience, please be sure to listen to the Young, Gifted & Abroad podcast for inspiration! If you enjoy this episode of Speaking Tongues, don’t forget to subscribe, rate and review the Speaking Tongues Podcast on Apple Podcasts or like and subscribe on YouTube so that other language lovers like ourselves can find the show! And, If you’ve been a long time listener of the show or a recent listener, you can now support the show on Buy Me a Coffee dot com. Links to all platforms are in the show notes! Ok! let’s chat!

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