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For Some Filipino-Americans, Language Barriers Leave Culture Lost in Translation

KQED News Staff

Feb 26, 2016 at

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Imagine not being able to communicate with your own family. Not because you live on opposite sides of the country, or because your aunt doesn't use Facebook. But because you don't speak the same language. That's the reality for some in the Bay Area's large Filipino-American community. Ericka Cruz Guevarra reports that for some Filipino-Americans, never learning their family's native language has left some things lost in translation.

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