Quat Are You Doing? Identity Between English & French

Today I sit down with Alex — American in France, language teacher, and co-founder of Peasy Anglais — to explore what happens when your sense of self stretches across languages.

We talk about French becoming the language where Alex feels her emotions most fully, about couple-created words (quat = quoi + what), and about the cultural scripts that shape how we sound — from the American “awesome!” to the French “c’est pas possible.”

This is an episode about bilingual love, code-switching as an art, and the twilight zone between words — but most of all, it’s about identity. Who are you when you speak French vs English? How does your voice change when you love, argue, or confess in your second tongue? And how do we step away from perfectionism and into authenticity — the version of us that’s real, unpolished, and whole?