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I only recently learned the term passive bilingualist - ‘a person who can understand a language fluently, but cannot speak it.’ It describes me and my experiences to the T. Belonging to the Dawoodi Bohra community (a Shia Islamic community with origins from India/Pakistan) and going to the Bohra mosque has never been easy for me for a variety of reasons, a major reason being I’m a passive bilingualist. I understand the languages being spoken at the mosque - Gujarati, Urdu, Lisan al-Dawat (well,

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The Journey of a Passive Bilingualist: Letting go of Ancestral Languages ~ Mariya Taher