Anna-Maria’s Story: Language, Identity and Belonging in Finland

Send us Fan Mail #17 In this episode of The Language Experiment, we continue our series on Language and Identity with a heartfelt and insightful conversation with Anna Maria, an entrepreneur and job coach who grew up in Finland in a multilingual family. With a Finnish mother, an Italian father, and parents who communicated in German, Anna Maria shares her unique experience of navigating childhood in a largely monolingual Finnish society. We discuss what it was like growing up bilingual—and ev...