Episode 27: Hungarian, Romanian, German, oh my!
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Dr. Iulia Pittman, born and raised in a Hungarian-speaking region of Romania, has dedicated her life to learning and teaching languages. Her recent work in the United States as a German professor and linguist has shown her firsthand just how challenging it can be to raise multilingual children here. In our first episode of season 3, we sit down to talk about her about her adolescent children, her book for bilingual parents, and how to avoid some common mistakes parents make when trying to maintain a minority language.
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