This episode features Maya Cumins, a bilingual Japanese–English professional who studied and built her career in Japan. She shares the challenges of adapting to Japan’s exam-based university system, navigating workplace culture, and finding her voice as a young professional. Maya also explains why she left the corporate world to pursue freelance project management and how being bicultural shaped her choices.
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This episode features Maya Cumins, a bilingual Japanese–English professional who studied and built her career in Japan. She shares the challenges of adapting to Japan’s exam-based university system, navigating workplace culture, and finding her voice as a young professional. Maya also explains why she left the corporate world to pursue freelance project management and how being bicultural shaped her choices.
(KOR) KyuTae Kim - Language and Identity: How Words Shape Who We Are
Voices Across Borders
22 minutes
1 month ago
(KOR) KyuTae Kim - Language and Identity: How Words Shape Who We Are
English: In this episode, we explore how language shapes identity and belonging. Language is more than communication. It connects us to emotion and culture. Together with Kyutae Kim, we talk about raising multilingual children and the role of language in an AI-driven world. Ultimately, it’s not how many languages we know, but how deeply we can express ourselves in one. Korean: 이번 에피소드에서는 언어가 정체성과 소속감을 어떻게 형성하는지에 대해 이야기합니다. 언어는 단순한 의사소통의 수단이 아니라, 감정과 문화를 이어주는 다리이기도 하죠. 김규태 씨와 함께 다언어 환경에서 자...
Voices Across Borders
This episode features Maya Cumins, a bilingual Japanese–English professional who studied and built her career in Japan. She shares the challenges of adapting to Japan’s exam-based university system, navigating workplace culture, and finding her voice as a young professional. Maya also explains why she left the corporate world to pursue freelance project management and how being bicultural shaped her choices.
