Said & Done

Professor Mariame Sy discusses growing up speaking Pulaar, Wolof and French in multilingual Senegal. She describes how she became interested in linguistics, and eventually became a teacher of Wolof at Columbia. She goes into detail about how she teaches Wolof, and how she views this teaching as a Decolonial enterprise. She discusses how she identifies specific concepts within Wolof culture, and he...

Prof. Yuri Shevchuk speaks about his experiences with the Ukrainian language in his early life. He shares how he became a teacher of Ukrainian and an advocate for the language, and how he wrote a bilingual English-Ukrainian collocation dictionary. He also discusses the impact that Putin's incursion into Ukraine in Spring 2022 has had on how the language is being spoken today.

Introducing Said & Done, a new podcast about languages and the people who speak them, from the Columbia University Language Resource Center. Learn more at https://www.lrc.columbia.edu/podcast/