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Sep 2023
33m 34s

349. A story of resilience and persisten...

HADAR SHEMESH
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What does it take to build confidence in a language and country that you weren’t born into?

In today’s episode, I’m interviewing my student Zoraida Cruz. Zoraida is from Nicaragua and immigrated to the US as a teenager. She shares her experiences of living in a predominantly Spanish-speaking community, the struggles she faced and how ultimately she was able to completely transform her English and confidence to become an unstoppable communicator.

Zoraida was a student in my program New Sound. Read more about New Sound here: https://bit.ly/47pygvK

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