Ranked #1
Summer Light Series: In case you thought Latin was dead
Summer Light Series: In case you thought Latin was dead
Summer Light Listening: “In case you thought Latin was dead…”Seriously? A podcast about Latin is supposed to be summer l... Read more
28 Aug 2019
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19mins
Ranked #2
24 - America the Bilingual podcast Season 2 - The Dual-Language Revolution Begins (Part I)
24 - America the Bilingual podcast Season 2 - The Dual-Language Revolution Begins (Part I)
Imagine there was a new way of teaching that results in most students becoming truly bilingual and biliterate before fin... Read more
24 Apr 2018
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28mins
Ranked #3
3- Just call me Anna
3- Just call me Anna
Linguists call it “shift.” The rest of us would call it “loss.” It’s what happens to the languages spoken by immigrants,... Read more
25 Apr 2017
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19mins
Ranked #4
36 - Season 3 - A Tidal Wave of Love: The John Rassias Legacy
36 - Season 3 - A Tidal Wave of Love: The John Rassias Legacy
The summer language immersion program that Professor John Rassias founded at Dartmouth College is famous worldwide for s... Read more
30 Jan 2019
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24mins
Ranked #5
35 - Season 3 - The Magic of Middlebury
35 - Season 3 - The Magic of Middlebury
World War I shattered a way of life for millions. But one positive result, invented by a German-American immigrant, cont... Read more
9 Jan 2019
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27mins
Ranked #6
16- America the Bilingual Podcast - Bless the Late Blooming Bilinguals
16- America the Bilingual Podcast - Bless the Late Blooming Bilinguals
When older adults learn another language, they don’t have the advantages of toddlers, whose minds are wired to learn two... Read more
25 Oct 2017
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28mins
Ranked #7
25 - America the Bilingual Season 2 - Dual language education: Winds of change
25 - America the Bilingual Season 2 - Dual language education: Winds of change
In this second episode on the dual-language movement, we hear from six voices of change in America. They trace their her... Read more
8 May 2018
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31mins
Ranked #8
42 - Season 3 - North Carolina: A Dual-Language Success Story
42 - Season 3 - North Carolina: A Dual-Language Success Story
In 2005, North Carolina had seven dual-language schools; in 2018, there were 140. A 2018 graduating class at one of the ... Read more
24 Apr 2019
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14mins
Ranked #9
10-America the Bilingual Podcast - The Joy of speaking Spanish
10-America the Bilingual Podcast - The Joy of speaking Spanish
For our tenth episode of America the Bilingual, we decided to do something different. Your favorite Recovering Monolingu... Read more
2 Aug 2017
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32mins
Ranked #10
19- America the Bilingual Podcast - When America went to war against the German language
19- America the Bilingual Podcast - When America went to war against the German language
Americans remember World War I, but most of us have forgotten the war within our own borders that took place during thos... Read more
6 Dec 2017
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36mins
Ranked #11
9- America the Bilingual Podcast - Ed de La Torre doesn't speak spanish
9- America the Bilingual Podcast - Ed de La Torre doesn't speak spanish
“Wow, it’s a good thing you’re studying Spanish,” a fellow told me the other day “because Spanish is taking over the cou... Read more
19 Jul 2017
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21mins
Ranked #12
8- America the Bilingual Podcast - American Outliers
8- America the Bilingual Podcast - American Outliers
Many of us dream of living abroad but few of us actually do. Yet here’s the thing: I’ve interviewed hundreds of native ... Read more
5 Jul 2017
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20mins
Ranked #13
15- America the Bilingual Podcast - Sealed with un beso
15- America the Bilingual Podcast - Sealed with un beso
He was rich, persuasive--and wrong. But Ron Unz succeeded in leading our most populous state down a dark path in the his... Read more
11 Oct 2017
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30mins
Ranked #14
4-Mother Tongue
4-Mother Tongue
We hear it before we are born. Before the first air rushes into our tiny lungs, before the first light refracts into our... Read more
10 May 2017
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15mins
Ranked #15
27 - America the Bilingual podcast Season 2 - How to Learn a Language Without Studying It
27 - America the Bilingual podcast Season 2 - How to Learn a Language Without Studying It
When people find out I’m learning Spanish, they frequently ask me, “How are you doing it?” It’s an obvious question. But... Read more
6 Jun 2018
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16mins
Ranked #16
43 - Season 3 - Buds of Bilingualism
43 - Season 3 - Buds of Bilingualism
None of us can master every language, but we can all learn phrases that extend a symbolic hand in greeting and say, “To ... Read more
15 May 2019
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17mins
Ranked #17
23 - America the Bilingual podcast Season 2 - In case you thought Latin was dead
23 - America the Bilingual podcast Season 2 - In case you thought Latin was dead
How has a presumably dead language become such a disruptor? Because Latin certainly seems to be just that. It’s one of t... Read more
10 Apr 2018
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19mins
Ranked #18
12-America the Bilingual Podcast - Eastern Star: The Nick Staffa story
12-America the Bilingual Podcast - Eastern Star: The Nick Staffa story
Nick Staffa was meant to become a rock star —but not the kind with a guitar on stage. This kid from Long Island of Itali... Read more
28 Aug 2017
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27mins
Ranked #19
7- America the Bilingual Podcast - The Bella and the Bold
7- America the Bilingual Podcast - The Bella and the Bold
Bettina Young had a remarkable young life--a fairy tale life by the standard of so many American girls who dream of bein... Read more
21 Jun 2017
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21mins
Ranked #20
14-America the Bilingual Podcast - The vanishing high school year abroad
14-America the Bilingual Podcast - The vanishing high school year abroad
In his junior year of high school, Doug Renfield-Miller was flunking out. It didn’t help to also get ejected from school... Read more
26 Sep 2017
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25mins