In this episode, we interview Jason Lee, whose parents, both native Korean speakers, raised him bilingual in Korean and English in the United States. Both he and his wife are second-generation speakers of Korean raising their three-year-old son to be bilingual. Research often finds that third-generation speakers of minority languages in the US tend to be English-dominant or even lose the minority language completely, but Lee is committed to keeping Korean alive for his son. He discusses how the experience has strengthened his language skills in Korean and how his own bilingual upbringing served as a model for him to pass on the gift of (at least) two languages to his child.
