I grew up bilingual. I also grew up hearing plenty of opinions about which ways of speaking were “proper.” And now, as an educator, I think about what children are hearing when we correct them. Sometimes we're teaching a useful pronunciation distinction. Great. But other times the message is much bigger than the sound itself: you don't sound like the people we've decided are the standard. I don't want students to be afraid to speak because they're worried about sounding wrong before they've even finished their thought. So I made a new Short about accents and language learning for The Multilingual Mind: https://youtu.be/EQNU-T0pprY If you grew up speaking more than one language, or learned one later, were you ever made to feel that the way you sounded mattered more than what you were trying to say?