Sarah Gagliano Taliun’s mother tongue is English, science’s lingua franca. Her move to a French-speaking university presented challenges and opportunities.
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When I moved to Montreal after my postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, I had a solid but rusty foundation in French grammar and vocabulary. I had taken classes in French as a child in Ontario, Canada, and as an undergraduate from 2010 to 2012, but there was lots of room for improvement.
I am continually being given new opportunities for science communication in French. These include teaching concepts in my field of computational human genomics to graduate students and preparing and marking homework and exam questions. In the first term of 2022, I taught my first graduate classes in French.
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