The ups and downs of being bilingual

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”.

So which language do they prefer? How did it affect their lives? And do they ever mess it up?

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