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Six Tips for Conversation Corps Partners
From the book America’s Bilingual Century:
Six Tips for Conversation Corps Partners
Tip No. 1: Be a learner, too
First, it helps greatly […]
What Color Is Your Paragraph?
Meet the award-winning narrator of the America’s Bilingual Century audiobook, who does more than just deliver the spoken text.
“Talking Leaves” The Cherokee Syllabary of Sequoyah
Editor’s note: Be sure to listen to our podcast on saving the Cherokee language—Episode 30 of America the Bilingual, “A New Generation of Cherokee Speakers […]
Jackie Kennedy’s Prowess as a Polygot
When President John F. Kennedy traveled to West Berlin on June 26, 1963, he wanted to assure the people there—who were literally walled off from the […]
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).
