Sophia Smith Galer: How to K*ll a Language

As Sophia Smith Galer’s Nonna lay dying, she realised it wasn’t just a beloved grandmother she was losing – it was the language she spoke, too. With the death of the language, Sophia would lose a culture, a history, an inheritance – a whole world. This tragedy reaches far beyond her family. Globally we are witnessing an unprecedented mass extinction event. Award-winning journalist Smith Galer has journeyed across continents and generations to report from this disappearing world. How to K*ll a Language is an impassioned investigation into a hidden global crisis, and a call to speak, read and write the languages of our world, before it’s too late.

Sophia Smith Galer is a multi-award winning journalist, author and content creator with more than 200 million video views. She writes and broadcasts about language, technology and culture and is a Contributing Editor at Translator magazine. In 2022 British Vogue named her one of the 25 most influential women in the UK for her work in journalism innovation.

Sophia will be in conversation with Megha Mohan, the BBC’s first gender and identity correspondent and author of Herlands.