We're Off For Juneteenth

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🗓️ 18 June 2021

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Hey, Nerd! NPR takes Juneteenth off. We'll be back Sunday with a special episode from NPR's Where We Come From series. It focuses on Emily Kwong's relationship to her heritage language and journey to learn Mandarin as an adult.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:04.6	Hey everybody, we are off today to honor June 10th and we'll be back on Sunday for a bonus
0:11.2	episode.
0:12.2	Yeah, that's right.
0:13.2	I'm bringing you all a personal story about my family and our language part of the
0:17.2	new Where We Come From series at NPR.
0:19.8	Emily and I talked this week about the science of learning a second language and on Sunday,
0:24.9	we're going to talk about why languages are lost in the first place.
0:28.8	And how to maybe get them back.
0:31.2	It's going to be a good one.
0:32.8	See you there.

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