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Realizing, and speaking, their truths in SpeakEasy’s ‘English’

Por: The Boston Globe Life October 25, 2022

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Language consists of so much more than words. Beyond matters of vocabulary, grammar, and syntax, its meaning can reach deep into questions of cultural and individual identity. There’s a reason our native language is called the mother tongue.Over the course of Sanaz Toossi’s perceptive and absorbing “English,” those bedrock truths become clear, to varying degrees, to an Iranian teacher and the four students she is trying to prepare for... + full article



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