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Jul 2023
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333. Culture, Identity, and Language wit...

HADAR SHEMESH
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In this episode I speak with English teachers Chris and Nick about the intersection of language, culture, and identity, and how all of that relates to English learning and to different experiences of people who immigrated to an English-speaking country.

This episode was originally published on Sep 17, 2020. To see the video version, click here: https://youtu.be/hrkCY51AsZ8

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