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Redefining multilingual, Indira Ramgolam has built her venacular to
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earning a new language can be daunting the first language she really wanted to learn, but
L to most. New grammar, vocabulary, and certainly not her last. School has fostered her
accents are certainly no easy task.
For
love for this subject as well by offering French
freshman Indira Ramgolam, language has
than, say, math and science, there is a human
been something she has loved for a long class, which is her favorite subject. “Different
time. “For some reason, language aspect to it. I feel like it is more
has always been easy for me. It’s AS PEOPLE EVOLVE. approachable sometimes. It’s also
an ongoing process to learn, and always changing; as people evolve,
I value the ability to always get LANGUAGES CHANGE language changes with them.” She

better at something. I also dream WITH THEM.” has now learned Italian, Spanish,
of travelling the world someday, German, French, and is looking
and it would be a lot easier if forward to discovering more about
I could speak with the locals.” Fler knack for Latin and Romanian. Indira explains that language
language began with her father, a native Jamaican, helps keep her grounded. “It’s a great big Earth,
who would speak to her in Patois. That became but language helps me make it a little smaller.”