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When you're racing to learn a language before it disappears forever

My grandmother is dying and I'm frantically trying to learn Yiddish before she goes but the language feels like it's dying with her generation.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Linguistic extinction is creating urgency around cultural transmission that cannot be separated from mortality and loss.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Language learning and cognitive effects?”

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