Multilingualism impacts the way a person feels, acts, and communicates. The purpose of our project was to discover how multiple languages affect a person’s communication abilities, worldviews, and other languages. We sought to see if there was a transfer in knowledge across each language as well as whether knowing multiple languages hinders the ability of others. During our interviewing process, we made sure to choose interviewees from various different language backgrounds. All of them had been exposed to multiple languages in separate as well as translingual environments. After conducting the interviews, we were able to get a better sense of how growing up in multilingual environments may influence a person’s speaking abilities.
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