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When Educational Success Creates Family Communication Barriers

My immigrant parents sacrificed their education so I could be fluent in English but now we can't discuss anything meaningful together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intergenerational linguistic mobility can paradoxically reduce rather than enhance family intimacy and understanding.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Multilingualism and its gifts?”

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