Welcome Language Learners to the Insecurities about Language podcast: The Death of Language and to an exciting topic I am tackling called the Death of Language...within families! In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Eliza, who works in language education and is currently based in Vietnam. As a child, her father married her Serbian stepmother, a first gen Yugoslav immigrant. From the age of 5, Eliza grew up with summer and winter holidays around Serbian food, language, and traditions. However, neither she nor her brother nor her cousins carried the language further.  After meeting her husband from the south Indian state of Kerala, her attempt to learn his mother tongue, Malayalam exposed a massive lack in resources and educational materials. Meeting various heritages speakers across the diaspora, as well as studying the social and economic constraints on language learning, has helped Eliza to create dialogues about social change for language preservation.

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