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In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Tanu Biswas, associate professor of pedagogy and lifelong polyglot, to explore how language can be more than a skill — it can be a worldview. Growing up multilingual in India and continuing her journey across Europe, Dr. Biswas shares how each language she’s learned became a bridge to new cultures, academic research, and deep human connection.

We dive into how multilingualism can shift not just your vocabulary, but your imagination and identity. Dr. Biswas discusses the power of switching between languages intuitively, how meaning shifts across tongues, and how even listening can be a powerful act of contribution.

She also opens up about her work on Childism: a growing academic movement that reimagines children’s roles in society, and how she’s building multilingual research communities around it across the globe.

Whether you're learning your first language or your tenth, this episode offers a rich, philosophical, and deeply human perspective on what it means to be “connected by language.”

The guest: www.tanubiswas.net

The Childism Institute: www.childism.org

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0:00 Intro

3:08 Becoming a Polyglot Without Chasing Fluency?

19:43 Language as a Tool for Bridging, Academia, and Meaning

53:54 Rethinking What Language Learning Is For

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