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De Goede Gesprekken #12: Linguistic and emotional commuting
15 February 2023
Speaking several languages and commuting between different places can be enriching and unsettling at the same time. Federico Gobbo, professor of Interlinguistics and Esperanto, experienced that himself and started a podcast about it during the first lockdown in 2020: The Commuters. Dean Marieke de Goede joins him to discuss podcasting, language, mobility and identity. 'All polyglots know this: when you speak another language, you are a slightly different version of yourself.'
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