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Keeping My Family's Language Alive
Michael Rosen talks to Samantha Ellis, author of Chopping Onions on My Heart, about her efforts to keep alive the language of her parents: Judeo-Iraqi Arabic. Samantha grew up in London hearing her parents speak the lang...
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Keeping My Family's Language Alive is an episode from Word of Mouth by BBC. Michael Rosen talks to Samantha Ellis, author of Chopping Onions on My Heart, about her efforts to keep alive the language of her parents: Judeo-Iraqi Arabic. Saman...
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Published Aug 28, 2025, 27:35 long, audio available.
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