ShowMultilingualism

Besides words, phrases, expressions, idioms, and linguistic and dialect issues related to speaking or learning more than one language, these segments address cognitive aspects, such as the interference between languages when speaking, how thinking in a second language might correlate with being less superstitious, whether dreaming in a new language signifies fluency, language attrition, where proficiency in a first language may decline after learning another, the feeling of having a different persona when switching languages, practical challenges include non-native speakers mixing up gendered pronouns, strategies for raising multilingual children, the sociolinguistic context of urban multilingualism in India, and historical language policies in schools.