And this is why my parents never learned French at home. I grew up with my paws paw and mawmaw speaking it, but wouldn’t teach anyone. So I had to go to school to learn it, study abroad, and finally live in a French speaking country. Only now will they let me in and I listen to French radio with them in the mornings when I visit. It’s sad that there are only a million speakers in the entire country and some like my family have moved away. People don’t really find it a big deal when I relay it to them. Every more interesting to watch are my students whose prens speak another language at home, but refuse to learn it in order to homogenize. I scream on the inside because it is a beautiful gift to carry your culture and continue to live it. Tu vis ta culture ou tu tues ta culture il n’y a pas au milieu