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How language loss creates intergenerational shame

I want to teach my kids Spanish but I'm embarrassed that I lost it myself and don't know how to admit that to them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The erasure of mother tongues severs connection to ancestral wisdom and creates gaps in cultural transmission.

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