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The Earful Tower: Paris

Growing up bilingual

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8796 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

A chat with three fully bilingual guests. These guys didn't learn English and French at school, but by growing up in cross-cultural families.

They can switch from one to another without even realising it, and create a language only they can understand: "Franglais".

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning, Panam. You're listening to World Radio Paris, and this is the new show,

0:04.6

The Earful Tower, and I'm Oliver G. This week we're going to be talking about something

0:13.7

a little bit different. We're going to be talking about bilingualism and binationalism. That's

0:18.5

to say, people who are half French, and we've got three guests in, all of whom are half French and half from somewhere else.

0:25.9

So I just introduce them.

0:27.3

We've got Clovis Casali.

0:28.8

Hello, bonjour.

0:30.1

And we have Gabrielle Cheya.

0:31.9

Hello.

0:33.1

And producer James Verzina, who's actually a guest this week.

0:36.7

Hello, Ali, it's an honor. Can I just

0:38.4

raise a point actually? Because why did you bring in your producer as a guest? Do that mean we're

0:43.3

only half guests, us too? Half French, half English, half American, half guests. So this is what we're

0:49.9

going to be talking about. We're going to be talking about what I think is quite a fascinating

0:52.7

concept and idea of being from two different places, two different languages, two different cultures,

0:57.6

and how that affects you as a person. So before we go any further, let's actually meet these

1:01.9

three international guests. And I think you guys can introduce yourself to one another and where

1:05.5

you're from. Gabrielle, ladies first. Hey, so I'm a half French, half American half american what does that mean your half your mother is

1:13.8

yeah my mother is american and my dad is french my dad's french too my hey my dad's french too no okay so

1:21.1

three guests with three french fathers and and what does that mean that just means french guys

1:25.3

get the girls pretty pretty much sounds Sounds like, were you born here?

1:29.2

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was born in Paris.

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