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Dec 2021
22m 5s

El don del lenguaje (The Gift of Languag...

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About this episode

For almost a decade, Leydis Lopez put her career in education on hold. Until one day, she finally decided to lean into her native Spanish language to give children the gift of bilingualism.

A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/3HoUG2U.

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