MY LINGUISTIC STORY
TOM HINTON

MAY 2018

For me, languages have always been both a personal and a professional concern. My mother is French, my father is English; I had the privilege of growing up bilingual, and my choice to pursue a career in teaching and researching the French language and its culture was motivated in part by the desire to explore my own identity. Now I have my own bilingual children, and I wait with fascination to see what relationship they each develop to their different languages.