Sofia Jeane: Multilingual Upbringing, Language Personalities

Ace Talks Language

In this episode I have a chat with Sofia, a friend from the online language learning community from Miami! Sofia grew up in between English, Spanish and Portuguese worlds and her multilingual and multicultural upbringing shines through as a super interesting theme in the episode. We also discuss some really interesting topics like the interaction between identity, personality, language and culture and wrap it up by having some fun chatting in French. In this episode you can find: Episode introduction [0:00] Sofia’s intro and multilingual, multicultural upbringing [3:15] Sofia’s brazilian background and Portuguese [11:45] Mixing languages growing up [24:55] Raising multilingual children [27:55] Being shy and afraid of making mistakes [33:15] Pain au chocolat vs chocolatine & mooncakes [34:45] Being a tourist vs becoming a local: travelling for Sofia [41:40] Not being able to travel because of COVID [47:10] Living abroad as a boost to language learning motivation [49:50] Maintaining advanced languages [52:15] Sofia’s naturally acquired vs consciously learned languages [56:35] Spanish in Miami [1:00:00] Accent as an identity marker [1:03:45] Passing for a native speaker [1:10:35] Belong to all cultures and none simultaneously [1:12:30] Personalities and culture in languages [1:16:05] Humour, memes & personality in languages [1:21:05] Natives vs non-natives in understanding cultural references [1:24:15] Learn languages to get to know people in their most authentic way [1:30:15] Future topics to talk about in a part 2 [1:32:30] Conversation en français (études linguistiques d'Ace à l'université, système HSK, particularités de comportement françaises et chinoises) [1:35:10] Links to resources and things mentioned in the episode: Sofia's YouTube and Instagram or you can find her by simply looking up Sofia Jeane and the handle @sofiajeane Ace's YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok or you can find me using the handle @officialacebuck