Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl, a sociolinguist and former director of the Yale Center for Language Study, speaks about heritage language learning, a topic on which she has published extensively. She then discusses other ways in which language learning has a transformative effect on people's lives, from migrant farm workers in florida, to university students, to any person who decides that they want to study a new language. The power of language learning is also the topic of her blog, Discover the World through Language, available at https://discovertheworldthroughlanguage.org/