Global Voices

Because of my positive experience in Seoul in 2024, I ended up going back during the summer of 2026 for an internship as a translator/interpreter.

I learned that there are so many different ways of living, thinking, and experiencing the world beyond what I had grown accustomed to in the United States.

Languages and dialects spoken by the African Diaspora, such as African French, Haitian Creole, Jamaican Patois, AAVE, Nigerian Pidgin, and more have roots in slavery and colonialism. They are greatly influenced by European languages, African languages, and languages spoken by Indigenous groups of the Americas. African French and Nigerian Pidgin The history of African French is related to the history of French colonialism in Africa. The French colonized 21 countries in Afric