EP 89: Mother Tongue

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 diasporans if they speak their home languages, and Hana contends with her own kids’ lack of fluency, and what it means.