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AMERICA TURNS THE PAGE TO BILINGUALISM
Steve’s award-winning book shows the way forward
2025 Update: See Steve’s thought piece on why making English the country’s official language “is like proclaiming that fish shall be officially wet.”
OUR NEWEST PODCAST EPISODE
80. You Can Finally Learn That Next Language You’ve Been Thirsting to Speak
80. You Can Finally Learn That Next Language You’ve Been Thirsting to Speak America the Bilingual · 80 - Season 6 - You Can Finally Learn That Next Language You’ve Been Thirsting [...]
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79. “What Language Barrier?” Meet the Indiana Jones of Language Learning
79. “What Language Barrier?” Meet the Indiana Jones of Language Learning America the Bilingual · 79 - Season 6 - “What Language Barrier?” Meet the Indiana Jones of Language Learning [...]
78. Meet Ilan Stavans, a Tocqueville for our century
78. Meet Ilan Stavans, a Tocqueville for our century America the Bilingual · 78 - Season 6 - Meet Ilan Stavans, a Tocqueville for our century “The [...]
77. A Trumpeter’s Tale
77. A Trumpeter’s Tale America the Bilingual · 77- Season 6 - A trumpeter's tale Esteban Battalán was not yet 7 years old when he first picked [...]
OUR MISSION: TO INFORM AND INSPIRE
Just as our national parks are prized features of our physical landscape, America’s languages are prized features of our linguistic landscape.
Maybe you’re simply curious about bilingualism. Perhaps, like me, you wish to become bilingual. Or you may already speak several languages.
Wherever you fit in this panorama, we welcome you to America the Bilingual.
Our Vision
We envision an America
…where it’s just normal to be bilingual, and where most people are.
…more capable of listening to people outside of our borders—in their native languages—and connecting with them at a deeper level.
…where monolingualism, like illiteracy in the 19th and 20th centuries, is viewed as something to be reduced and eventually eliminated.
…where universal bilingualism and biliteracy is the next step in the long arc of American educational attainment.
You can book Steve for many different audiences
First, know that she has one of those glorious English accents (or what all of us who are not English would call an accent), which makes her a natural for the audio book narration that she does. Although U.S. born, Caroline grew up in England and studied literature at the University of Warwick (fyi for American ears: that second “w” is silent).
