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How to teach while still learning cultural knowledge

I volunteer at the language immersion school but I'm still learning myself, and sometimes the kids know words I don't and I feel like a fraud teaching what I barely understand.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Language revitalization requires imperfect speakers to become teachers before they feel ready.

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