Episode Summary
I was travelling in India between September 2024 and February 2025. It was never somewhere I really associated with languages despite having 23 official languages, but it soon became one of my favourite destinations in relation to languages! So in this episode, I sat down to share some of my favourite lessons and reminders about languages that India taught me.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode
- Whether or not multiple languages can co-exist and things still get done
- What Indian English taught me about my own language I’m supposedly “fluent” in!
- What code-switching is and why it is everywhere (even if you try not to do it)
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
02:06 🗣️ Multiple languages can co-exist and things get done
04:32 🌍 Necessity to learn a language isn’t always geography
05:43 🙏 It never hurts to learn thank you in a local language
07:12 🧠 You never fully know your own language
10:39 🔁 Code-switching is life!
11:38 Outro & how we can work together
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