What does it take to pass along a language other than English?
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What does it take to pass along a language other than English?

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 7, 202651 min
  • Language learning
  • About Canada

Our guest for the hour is Nikolay Slavkov, research chair in language policy and professor with the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute at the University of Ottawa.

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