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71. The Surprise in That Subway® Sandwich: Languages Getting a peek behind the curtain to see how a company truly operates can be eye-opening. I never knew that, you [...]

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70. A Whisper to God- A Whisper to God The American journalist, linguist, and author Michael Erard (Babel No More) has lived in South America, Asia, and now in Europe. He’s always had…

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69. What Is Life When You Leave the US and Become United Stateless?- The 20th-century novelist Thomas Wolfe famously pronounced that “you can’t go home again.” But what if…
68. Amy Chua, the Original Tiger Mom, Has Bilingual Stripes- Amy Chua, known to many as Tiger Mom, was determined that her two American-born daughters would grow up…
67. Meet a Spanish Teacher in Maine Named Mohamed- Meet a Spanish Teacher in Maine Named Mohamed Mohamed with a fellow alum of Bowdoin College (different years), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Call him señor Mo…
66. How Joe Keenan came to write a breakout book on learning Spanish- How Joe Keenan came to write a breakout book on learning Spanish Joe in Santa Elena Canyon near his home in Big Bend. “One wall of…
65. How Dario Wolos Turned a Taco into Tacombi The secret sauce: a love of language, culture, and family- When you wrap your appetite around a Tacombi taco, here’s what you’ll taste…
64. A Global Audio Storyteller: The Journey of Martina Castro- Maybe it was because her father was always listening to NPR. Perhaps it came from wanting to study a language…
63. Chef Pati Jinich’s Recipe for Reaching Across Cultures- Chef Pati Jinich’s Recipe for Reaching Across Cultures Photo by Pati Jinich “Here’s the thing that we all need to know. And it’s life lessons. It’s just like making pancakes or rice or so…
62. Writing in Two Worlds: How a Peruvian American Novelist Embraces Her Bilingualism- Natalia Sylvester’s newest novel for teens, Breathe and Count Back from Ten, was a 2022 Today Show Pick, and just recently won two awards from…
61. Where Children’s Books Become Bilingual- “When Arthur Levine, a longtime American book publisher, bought the rights to publish, as he called it, a “very British” new children’s book on this side of the pond, it was…
60. Crossing the Borderlands of America’s Immigration- “I do consider Puerto Rico a borderland of the United States,” says Brenda Piñero of her homeland. Brenda left the island—an American territory rather than a state—after getting her law degree at the University of…
59. From Fast-Food Worker to Renowned Film Critic: Carlos Aguilar and Why DACA Is Important: From Fast-Food Worker to Renowned Film Critic: Carlos Aguilar and Why DACA Is Important “My dad died in 2018 and I wasn’t able to go to his…
58. Reclaiming the Language That History Wanted Lost: Reclaiming the Language That History Wanted Lost At Indigenous Peoples’ Day in Newton, MA, Priscilla reads to youngsters from her children’s book, A Twisty Vine…
57. How the New York Mets Turned a Green Beret into a Polyglot: A benefit of bilingualism you may not have considered: how useful it can be…
56. For a Star of Classical Piano, Languages Hold the Key- “You never dreamed, did you, that a piano could be made to express all that?” That’s Marcel Proust, the early 20th-century…

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