From Peace Corps to Albania and Bangkok, An American Couple on Learning Albanians: S7E7
Geopats Abroad : Living overseas conversations · Stephanie Fuccio
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Show Notes
Language, love, identity, everything shifting at once.
Two Americans who barely traveled before the Peace Corps ended up mastering Albanian, building lives in tiny towns, and falling for a place that completely changed how they see themselves. Their stories about learning Albanian in real Albanian villages, picking up slang and dialects, switching between Albanian and Greek, and figuring out daily expat life through immersion and community are wild, and honestly it reminded me how much language is tied to belonging. If you want to hear what fluency looks like when it grows out of real life in Albania, not textbooks, and how learning a language can change who you are, listen to the full episode.
Original publication date: March 21, 2021