{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Our Somali Community","title":"Learning Our Language","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":83,"description":"I like it here in East Grand Forks because it's very small town and there's not a lot of cars. There's not a lot of hustle here. That's why I like here. I remember one of my sister friend were here a little bit, two years earlier. So that makes things easier for my family. Like where? The grocery. Where's the doctors? How to ride the bus? How to order taxi. So that was really helpful. So she taught my family a lot, and especially my sister. When I was in high school my senior year, I decided to become a midwife. And then in order to become a midwife, you have to go through nursing school. And so I decided to do nursing. I took a lot of classes for nursing, which is the requirement classes for nursing. When I was in college. I want to be a midwife first before I become the human services degree and all that. And then one day the father of my children got sick. He was hospitalized. And then he was about to have a surgery. And then as we walk in, we call an interpreter and then a lady who was interpreting for him misinterpreted everything. As I was doing my anatomy physiology, practicing, testing for that, we were studying the body and then I was just doing my own thing, like let her do her job. And as a doctor started talking to her between her and the patient. And then, she totally misinterpreted everything. And I was like, whoa. And then. And that's the time I took the initiative. I need to learn Somali so I can serve my community better. So I did a lot of practice and YouTube. I watch a lot of Somalis movies, a lot Somali shows. And then I went back to Somalia, lived there like a year so I can learn the language and that's the opportunity when the parents to offer their kids to take back home. It's really good to have a two language. Let's see you become a doctor. Okay. Example. And then you know two languages. So how many communities can you serve? Two languages. A lot of communities, right? Two communities. So, when the doctors go get a job, if they interview...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/4xZM3ix4lg6ZjlbBpmA27bIU3z6jBBM4-nxRsv1M8Mk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kNTlj/ZTRiZDllMTk3NTcw/NGEzYzQ0YzcxZDVl/Y2ZiYy5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}