Can you find your identity through a heritage language?

Humorist, actress, and author Susan Poulin is a Franco-American who speaks in her TEDx Talk about the pride she feels in her heritage and what the French language has meant to her.

French was Ms. Poulin’s first language, but she only spoke it until she was three or four. Born in Jackman, Maine, 24 kilometres (15 miles) from the Canada-US border, she’s been trying to find her identity since her forties through relearning her lost language.

Genealogists who don’t speak their parents or grandparents’ mother tongue may relate.