Russo, Mai

I’m an undergraduate student for Speech Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich. I was born and raised in Israel, with Hebrew as my mother tongue. Following my move to Germany, I conducted intense studies of the German language in preparation for my academic development in Munich. It was then that I realized how fascinating languages were to me, and how being exposed to diverse languages bore significant impact and truly changed the way I interacted with the people in my life. This was the main reason for my decision to seek out a BA program focused on languages.

I’m mostly interested in L2 acquisition by adults and bilingual children, and in the way ones mother tongue and the targeted L2 shape and influence each other, whether by articulation or by perception, self-expression, and worldview.

Currently I am assisting the ERC project “MAJLIS: The Transformation of Jewish Literature in Arabic in the Islamicate World” in transcribing old Hebrew catalogues.

Areas of Interest

Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Language acquisition

Historical Periods of Interest

20th and 21st centuries

Positions

Education