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January 2025

76. Meet the Maestro Behind these New Language Workouts

2025-01-14T16:50:08-05:00By |Episodes|

76. Meet the maestro behind these new language workouts  America the Bilingual · 76 - Season 6 - Meet the maestro behind the new language gym The conventional description of someone who speaks as many languages as Akshay Swaminathan does is “polyglot.” But as you’ll quickly hear when you listen to this episode, there’s nothing conventional about how this Knight-Hennessy scholarship recipient and PD Soros fellow approaches languages. There is, however, a solid commitment to use what he’s learned about learning languages to help other adults learn, too. A LANGUAGE [...]

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November 2024

75. Recipe: Mix Jewish with Mexican, Add Maine

2024-11-21T07:15:46-05:00By |Episodes|

75. Recipe: Mix Jewish with Mexican, Add Maine Among the many bilingual projects that Professor Margaret Boyle of Bowdoin College in Maine has on the front burner is the newly released Sabor Judío: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook. Margaret, who is Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Director of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies at Bowdoin, is also the coauthor, with Professor Ilan Stavans, of Sabor Judío. The two drew from their Jewish Mexican heritages and the recipes of their families to develop the cookbook, whose Spanish title translates to Jewish Flavor. The 100 recipes [...]

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September 2024

74. The unexpected truth about languages in America

2024-09-03T18:54:54-04:00By |Episodes|

74. The unexpected truth about languages in America Ellis Island in New York’s harbor was the first stop in America for more than 12 million immigrants between 1892 and 1954. ​Image Source: https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3g05584/ The United States leads the world in bilingualism. No kidding. Because of this, no country understands the world as well as the United States. Seriously. Ah, you may be thinking, there must be a catch. No catch—just a different way to understand the uncontested data that’s been accumulating for decades. So…how did we get here, and how [...]

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July 2024

73. Global English: Blessing or Curse?

2024-07-15T13:51:41-04:00By |Episodes|

73. global english: blessing or curse? The Rise of English won a prestigious award in 2023. In the episode, Rosemary shares why it meant so much to her. What if the answer to that question is “both”? In this episode, Professor Rosemary Salomone brings a linguist’s curiosity and a lawyer’s measured assessment to this question in her conversation with Steve. Rosemary is both linguist and lawyer, and just as significant, writer. THE RISE OF ENGLISH AND THE ROLE OF BILINGUALISM She and Steve are discussing her most recent book, The [...]

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June 2024

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