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Feb 2022
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Sauver la langue bretonne (Saving the Br...

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A young woman from the region of Brittany falls in love with the local language, le breton. Through her passion for language learning, she decides to help save the Breton language from extinction.

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

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